“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”

—  Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The Marble Faun

Source: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter IV: The Spectre of the Catacomb

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

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