Two points
First of all, the ruling is correct. You can't keep an exposed card, no matter how much you want it, and no matter how sweet it would've been.
Secondly, you wouldn't have gotten quads. By exposing your eight preflop, the dealer wound up dealing one extra card pre-flop. This means that the flop eight would've been the burn card, before the turn, and the turn eight would've been the burn card, before the river. Thus giving you a final hand of 'one pair of eights'.
You would've had a pair of eights on a KJcXXX board.
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