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Quotes from Young Goodman Brown — Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804–1864 United States

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By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

Young Goodman Brown (1835)

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