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Whoever destroys a good book kills reason itself
Drawn from what John Milton said
What John Milton actually said
- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Where this was said
↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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