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Quotation by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Clifford Pyncheon, in The House of the Seven Gables (1851)English Notebooks (1870, revised 1941)English Notebooks (1870, rev. 1941)Hester Prynne, in The Scarlet Letter (1850)Hilda, in The Marble Faun (1860)Related Subjects
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Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), U.S. author. The House of the Seven Gables, ch. 12 (1851).
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