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Nathaniel Hawthorne quoteNathaniel Hawthorne [1804-1864] American Novelist
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

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