"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
"When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude."
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Source: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy
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