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Letters and Social Aims Quotes
Every artist was first an amateur.
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(Houghton, Mifflin & Co., ed. 1876), Essay VII. Progress of Culture, Page 215
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Book:
Letters and Social Aims
Writer:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genre:
Essays
Published:
1875
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