“For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.”
Aphorism #367, in Aphorisms and Reflections (1907) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/Book/Aphor.html edited by Henrietta A. Huxley, his widow
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