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Quotation from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief”
The House of the Seven Gables, Author's Preface (Project Gutenberg #77)
Hawthorne half-ironically supplies his book with a moral, as readers of the day expected.
Citation: "the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief" — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Author's Preface (Project Gutenberg #77). (id the-house-of-the-seven-gables-q2)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
