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> [The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-masters-painted-for-joy-and-knew-not-that-virtue-had-gone-out-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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