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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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- The Scarlet Letter, a Romance (first edition), 1850 · Chapter XX, "The Minister in a Maze", p. 263
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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 Chapter XX, "The Minister in a Maze", of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850). The narrator speaks, commenting on the minister Arthur Dimmesdale.