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“Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Areopagitica.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d21cd685e23e0e58d6ce282b919423f14fe8b9d7dc65063af9d4d99fa8d96df9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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