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It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1609
Born: February 18
Died: 1674
Died: September 9
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