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It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to death, if we give the matter the right word! ... we read in dead men's books! we laugh at dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos! . . . whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a dead man's icy hand obstructs us!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to death, if we give the matter the right word! ... we read in dead men's books! we laugh at dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos! . . . whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a dead man's icy hand obstructs us!
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