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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Yesterday I visited...

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Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

Source: English Notebooks, 1870; entry for 27 Mar 1856.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, (Jul 4 1804-1864), US novelist, short-story writer; He was the leading U.S. fiction-writer of 19th century; wrote The Scarlet Letter, 1850.


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