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George Orwell, Burmese Days Quotes: A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
         

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.


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This page presents the quote "A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.". Author of this quote is George Orwell, Burmese Days. This quote is about colonialism, india, pukka-sahibs, britain, imperialism, british-empire, war,.