A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts. (Joseph Addison)

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.

Joseph Addison

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