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Every artist was first an amateur.

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