“The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers — stern and wild ones, — and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine
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