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The Scarlet Letter quotes

5 quotes from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.
Narrator · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Narrator · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XX
What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other.
Hester Prynne (dialogue) · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVII
They said that it meant Able, so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength.
Narrator · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIII
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!
Narrator · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV

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