Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. (George Orwell)

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.

George Orwell

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