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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Areopagitica.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 802c74873d5dc1410726976386c7f9c856cfd5c3c76f2c647b97bc3a225bbd81
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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