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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes: The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
         

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.


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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.



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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.



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