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"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. Hawthorne descended from Puritan ancestors and his New England ...

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A new broom sweeps clean.
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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