"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."
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The House of Seven Gables by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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."
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The House of Seven Gables by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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The House of Seven Gables by
Nathaniel Hawthorne