“…but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit…”John Milton · Quote Journal
Your grandmother's cookbook, her handwriting in the margins. Nobody in the family would ever throw that one out.
The sentence keeps going: a good book is life-blood "embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
The ribbon on the cover is ours. There's a real one inside, for your own pages.
Write in it like someone will read it later. Someone will.
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“…but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit…”John Milton · Quote Journal
Your grandmother's cookbook, her handwriting in the margins. Nobody in the family would ever throw that one out.
The sentence keeps going: a good book is life-blood "embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
The ribbon on the cover is ours. There's a real one inside, for your own pages.
Write in it like someone will read it later. Someone will.
Same line, also on
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John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644.
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