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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Salem
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hathorne
Monsieur de l'Aubépine
N. H.
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Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
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A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.
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Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
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Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.
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Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.
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