“When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.”

— Hilaire Belloc

"On His Books"
Hilaire Belloc (1925)
Variant: When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

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