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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts.
* He attended Bowdoin College, where he met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other future literary figures.
* After graduating from college, Hawthorne struggled to make a living as a writer.
* He worked as a customs inspector and a short-term employee at Brook Farm, a utopian community.
* Hawthorne's first novel, Fanshawe, was published in 1828.
* His most famous works include The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and The Blithedale Romance (1852).
* Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
* He is considered one of the greatest American authors of the 19th century.
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
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