Samuel Butler quote about reading from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.
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“ Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them. ”
 Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation

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Author Samuel Butler
Source The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
Topic reading books bookshelves
Date 1912
Language English
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Samuel Butler quote about reading from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.
Samuel Butler quote about reading from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.