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What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
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Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hathorne
Monsieur de l'Aubépine
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