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. - John Milton

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John Milton: "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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Certain	Contain	Dead	Efficacy
Extraction	Intellect	Life	Living
Potency	Preserve	Progeny	Purest
Soul	Them	Things	Vial
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