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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
Beauty
Whether
Art
Temperament
Another
Appreciation
Nature
Greatness
Book
Depends
Much
Genius
Men
Books

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