“Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard”

— Benjamin Jowett

Source: Letters, p. 244

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Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817–1893

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“Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard”

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