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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes: We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.
         

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.


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



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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.




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



In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

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