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Quotes from The English Notebooks — Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804–1864 United States

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Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

The English Notebooks (1853)

If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.

The English Notebooks (1853)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Hawthorne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.