“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and Pearl

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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