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    Calligraphy quote from Ralph Waldo Emmerson
    March 22, 2022

    Writing as a Calligrapher

    The word calligraphy comes from the Greek. Kali, meaning beautiful, and Graphos, meaning writing. Beautiful writing. It’s a term that was coined after the invention of the printing press, after the ...

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