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Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

1804–1864

23 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and Happiness.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XX: The Minister in a MazeIn context
- Truth & Lies
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Truth & Lies
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Truth & Lies

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