So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Ch. 8, p. 99 [2012 reprint]
- work
- Ends and Means (1937)
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- 1937
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- p. 99
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