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choose the lovely spots alone and make us think that this is life. He must bring the world before our eyes and make us read and learn. AS he loves the pure and noble, he must show the false and bad. As he yearns for true equality, he must paint the master and the slave. He must tell the truth, and tell it all; must tell it o'er and o'er again, till the deafest ear will listen and the dullest mind will think. He must not swerve to please the world by painting only pleasant sights and telling only lovely tales. He must think, and paint, and write, and work, until the world shall learn so much and grow so good that the true will all be beautiful and all the real be ideal.
