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"No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land."
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2201">No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3286/">Hawthorne, Nathaniel</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/america/">America</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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