A book that is shut is but a block. - Thomas Fuller

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A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller

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About Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (baptized 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English preacher, historian, and scholar.

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.