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Alberto Manguel Quote

Ancient Egypt 1300BCBe a scribe! Engrave this in your heartSo that your name might live on like theirs!The scroll is better than the carved stone.A man has died: his corpse is dust,And his people have passed from the land.It is a book that makes him be rememberedIn the mouth of the speaker who reads him.

Alberto Manguel

Ancient Egypt 1300BCBe a scribe! Engrave this in your heartSo that your name might live on like theirs!The scroll is better than the carved stone.A man has died: his corpse is dust,And his people have passed from the land.It is a book that makes him be rememberedIn the mouth of the speaker who reads him.

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