A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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