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Almost Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.
- Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!
- You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
- A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again…
- But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to…
- What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to…
- I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in…
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