No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Life
- 1804-1864
- Occupations
- novelist, writer, diplomat
- Notable works
- The Scarlet Letter, Little Daffydowndilly, and other stories, The House of the Seven Gables
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne