Porcupine_I on 05 June 2012
| Turkish said: There is a saying in Dutch: al draagt een aap een gouden ring, het is en blijft een lelijk ding. Sorry don't know how to translate. |
Even if a monkey wears a gold ring, it will still remain a ugly thing
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
