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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
- Source
- The Scarlet Letter, a Romance (first edition), 1850 · Conclusion, p. 316
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- Internet Archive (Duke University Libraries scan of the first edition, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850)
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From the Conclusion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850). The narrator gives it as the one moral he puts into a sentence from the minister's experience.