Carolina QuotesThe nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 1 (p. 12)
- work
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- year
- 1958
- locator
- p. 12
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