Apologizing Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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