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"You see hi her while she closed the cases

"No, frankly, I don't think thereat object in life," said Dorothea

"I fear you are a heretic about art generally How is that? I should

have expected you to be very sensitive to the beautiful everywhere"

"I suppose I as," said Dorothea, simply "I

should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life And then

all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life

and make it no better for the world, pains one It spoilswhen I am made to think that most people are shut out from

it"

"I call that the fanaticisht say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refineht to be ht have no advantage over others The best piety is

to enjoy--when you can You are doing the reeable planet And enjoyment radiates It

is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken