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To possess money is very well it may be a valuable servant to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Tryon Edwards

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
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