In “Re: Civilization’s Dirty Work,” below, Derb, you quote a correspondent, who quotes an essay by Richard Grenier, which quotes George Orwell as follows:

The ruling power is always faced with the question ‘in such and such circumstances what would you do?’ – whereas the opposition is not obliged to take any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition… the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly.

That is so beautifully put, and so utterly apt, particularly of academic life, that I’d like to tuck it away in my book—well, my Word document—of favorite quotations. But where does the passage come from? Since it represents, so to speak, a quotation inside a quotation, I’d feel leery of using it (and sooner or later I’d be certain to use it) without a citation. Did your correspondent include one? (Can anyone reading this?)