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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.   Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Excerpt from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. · This quote is about patriotism · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature.

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