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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
Diplomat
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Science Fiction Writer
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Salem
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hathorne
Monsieur de l'Aubépine
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