Words are good servants but bad masters.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
As quoted by Laura Huxley, in conversation with Alan Watts about her memoir This Timeless Moment (1968), in Pacifica Archives #BB2037 [sometime between 1968-1973])
- year
- 1968
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“Words are good servants but bad masters.” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-BE3C54DFEB. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/be3c54dfeb
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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