It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, … - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic. . . in morse code.

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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.

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