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Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time.

George Orwell, review of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, in New English Weekly (November 14, 1935), referring to the bestial human counterparts to the noble horse creatures, the Houyhnhnms, in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726, 1735).

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Thought of the Day

The sense of capitalism sobered and dignified Paul de Florac: at the age of five-and-forty he was actually giving up being a young man, and was not ill pleased at having to enlarge his waistcoats, and to show a little grey in his moustache. His errors were forgotten: he was bien vu by the Government. He might have had the Embassy Extraordinary to Queen Pomaré; but the health of Madame la Princesse was delicate. He paid his wife visits every morning: appeared at her parties and her opera box, and was seen constantly with her in public.
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family (1854-1855), Chapter XLVI: “The Hotel de Florac.” Perhaps the very first use of the word “capitalism” in English literature.

— William Makepeace Thackeray