Quote by Arthur Dimmesdale

"Better never to have known a moment's peace than to feel the gnawing of an evil conscience."

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."

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