“Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,—only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

as spoken by Peter Hovenden
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

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

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