No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American writer
The Scarlet Letter, ch. 20 “The Minister in a Maze” (1850)
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