John Milton
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English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674); author of Paradise Lost and Areopagitica.
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Whoever destroys a good book kills reason itself (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Bad books can help a discerning reader to discover, refute, warn and illustrate (opens korrents.com)
“Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to…”
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A virtue that never goes out to meet its adversary is not worth praising (opens korrents.com)
“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and…”
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Whoever destroys a good book kills reason itself (opens korrents.com)