Carolina QuotesPolitical liberty’s a swindle because a man doesn’t spend his time being political. He spends it sleeping, eating, amusing himself a little and working — mostly working. When they’d got all the political liberty they wanted — or found they didn’t want — they began to understand this.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 3 (Mr. Bojanus)
- work
- Antic Hay (1923)
- year
- 1923
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