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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 itself.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Areopagitica.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 99ee744ead41181f03d89eac7c533a346d5b9bccd11dd3d4a1f94d8064f35788
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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