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| For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables |  |
| "Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?" cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding conversation. "It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body." | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables |  |
| "What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests." | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The House of Seven Gables |  |