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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason ...more

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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

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Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this swe...more

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ...more

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they ...more

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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, bla...more

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I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronol...more