George OrwellA dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.
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A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. The quote says that the British army was too full of people who did not care to be decent or to fight for their country. If they were not trained to fight, they did not fight. (For example, all of them had nothing to lose.) When they did take up arms, they did so in the interests of the king and country.
Source: Burmese Days
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