Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.


Marble Faun, Volume 1, The; Or, Romance (ed. 2006)


At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace...

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace...

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace...

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace...