ill-fitted head representative a community owed origin progress, prese — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter

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He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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