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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
George Edmund Street
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George Edmund Street
Age: 57 †
Born: 1824
Born: June 20
Died: 1881
Died: December 18
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