Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

The world, that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.


The House of Seven Gables (1851)


The world, that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

The world, that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

The world, that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

The world, that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.