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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly.

Source: Letter, 27 Apr 1843; published in Letters from New York, vol. 1, Letter 39, 1843.
-- Lydia M Child, (Feb 11 1802-1880), US author; Her anti-slavery works had great influence in her time; edited Juvenile Miscellany, 1826-34, the first children's monthly in U.S.

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