“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

—  Nathaniel Hawthorne

1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)

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

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