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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

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.
Heart
Gentle
Methinks
Never
Hearts
Token
Love
Healthy
Sewing
Thoughts
Tokens
Especially
Accomplishments
High
Occupied
Women
Accomplishment
Quilting
Home
Characteristics
Needlework

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