“A book is the only immortality.”
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) American politician
As quoted in Part of a Man's Life (1905) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Farnham's Freehold
Source: Farnham's Freehold
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