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"I'll say it again: Egyptian art owes all that it has produced that is great, pure & beautiful to no one but itself; &, whatever may displease those scholars who make a religion of firmly believing in the spontaneous generation of the arts in Greece.... Ancient Egypt taught the arts to Greece, and Greece gave them the most sublime development: but without Egypt, Greece would probably not have become the classic land of the fine arts."
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