“No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The Blithedale Romance

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

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