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people are wonderfully clever imitators, and know how to were killing their own trade through imitation. They copy 
give the semblance of age to their wares when it is desirable the French, German and English ideas, and interweave them 
to do so." with their own until the native work loses its own peculiar 
Concerning the relative merits of the Chinese and Japa- character. The Chinese, on the contrary, cling tenaciously to 
nese art of to-day the merchant declared that the Japanese their own style and refuse to be influenced by foreign ideas. 
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