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Wheatcroft lauds Orwell's clear vision about tyrannical tendencies (whereever he saw them, on left or right) & his influence on our language. Though his novels aren't in the world's top literary tier, Evelyn Waugh (with whom Orwell shared an unlikely mutual admiration) described Orwell's greatness in terms of his "unusually high moral sense and respect for justice and truth." Orwell's epitaph could be his own praise for Anatole France's "passion for liberty and intellectual honesty."