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• Art is a jealous mistress. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Wealth
• Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Be and not seem. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• It is a luxury to be understood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• There is no knowledge that is not power. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their live into the sting they give.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• All mankind love a lover. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• A nation never falls but by suicide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso