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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.” quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne — Download Open image

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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