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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes: Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
         

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.


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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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