• The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

  François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop 1651-1715
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1. fleshless
2. unbodied
3. ghosts
4. shades
5. their

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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. by : François Fénelon

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