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- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: March 10, 1772
- Died: January 12, 1829
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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