Who said "We have wronged each other into an iron necessity."?

This quote is attributed to Arthur Dimmesdale.

We have wronged each other into an iron necessity. - Arthur Dimmesdale

"We have wronged each other into an iron necessity."

Arthur Dimmesdale

Character in The Scarlet Letter

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"We are all sinners, Hester. We are all sinners."

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"Believe me, Hester, there are none so agonized with inward torment."

"Thou knowest—thou hast long known it—that I am no evil man."