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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

From a Japanese bookplate, ca. 1470:
To steal this book closes the gates of heaven,
And to destroy it opens the gates of hell.
Anyone who takes this book without permission
Will be punished by all the gods of Japan.
Found in a book I took from my mother's house.

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