{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/and-then-perhaps",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/and-then-perhaps.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/and-then-perhaps.md",
  "id": "7ca3ca11-767e-4c11-863a-e2abaed37486",
  "slug": "and-then-perhaps",
  "text": "And then perhaps this misery of class-prejudice will fade away, and we of the sinking middle class … may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "George Orwell",
    "slug": "george-orwell",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "The Road to Wigan Pier",
    "slug": "the-road-to-wigan-pier",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": null,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "humor",
      "slug": "humor",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
    },
    {
      "name": "social inequality",
      "slug": "social-inequality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/social-inequality"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier#Quotes",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:51",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "fcd5a777-fe0c-4810-85ff-7aa82f35222e",
      "slug": "we-spend-our",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/we-spend-our",
      "text": "We spend our lives in abusing England but grow very angry when we hear a foreigner saying exactly the same things.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        },
        {
          "name": "patriotism",
          "slug": "patriotism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patriotism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "f9fa2930-7f1b-4573-855c-1750e09fdd41",
      "slug": "the-modern-english",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/the-modern-english",
      "text": "The modern English literary world, at any rate the high-brow section of it, is a sort of poisonous jungle where only weeds can flourish.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "literature",
          "slug": "literature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature"
        },
        {
          "name": "criticism",
          "slug": "criticism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/criticism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "da12c6ad-c487-4f0f-aed4-d18756c758e1",
      "slug": "tea-the-englishmans",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/tea-the-englishmans",
      "text": "Tea, the Englishman's opium.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "pleasure",
          "slug": "pleasure",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pleasure"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:51"
    }
  ]
}