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Quotation from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred”
The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XXIV, Conclusion
The narrator draws one explicit moral from Dimmesdale's hidden guilt and public confession.
Citation: "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred" — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XXIV, Conclusion. (id the-scarlet-letter-q2)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
