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From Emerson's Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage
over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety. ... No mannerist made
these varied groups and diverse original single figures. ... Here is
the artist himself improvising, grim and glad, at his block.
		-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Art", p. 187

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