"See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness,……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne

"See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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