“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne , book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IX: The Leech

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

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