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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 19445 |
| QUOTATION: | It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Art,” Society and Solitude (1870). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Emerson Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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