And when they thought of how they had laboured, what discouragements they had overcome, and the enormous difference that would be made in their lives when the sails were turning and the dynamos running - when they thought of all this, their tiredness forsook them and they gambolled round and round the windmill, uttering cries of triumph.
But if there were hardships to be borne, they were partly offset by the fact that life nowadays had a greater dignity than it had had before.
Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer - except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.
And for the others, their life, so far as they knew, was as it had always been. They were generally hungry, they slept on straw, they drank from the pool, they laboured in the fileds; in winter they were troubled by the cold, and in summer by the flies.
There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
Twelve animals were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now,what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pigto man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Excerpted from 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell