Pictures must not be too picturesque. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Er…

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Pictures must not be too picturesque. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.215, Harvard University Press
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