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By John Quincy Adams
...no book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
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- Letters of John Quincy Adams, to his son, on the Bible and its teachings, 1848 · p. 119
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1848 first edition, Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co.)
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From the last of John Quincy Adams's letters to his son George Washington Adams on the Bible, published as Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings (Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co., 1848). The quote begins mid-sentence, after a list of what he admires in the Scriptures ("for pathos of narrative; ... and for irresistible force of persuasion:").