Fragments from the Journal of  a Solitary Man
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Fragments from the Journal of  a Solitary Man
                                            
                            By Nathaniel Hawthorne
                            
                                1 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: I religiously obeyed his instructions with regard to the papers in the escritoire and burned them in a heap without looking into one, though sorely tempted. But the old journal I kept. Perhaps in strict conscience I ought also to have 
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                                                Brief Extract: I religiously obeyed his instructions with regard to the papers in the escritoire and burned them in a heap without looking into one, though sorely tempted. But the old journal I kept. Perhaps in strict conscience I ought also to have burned that; but casting my eye over some half-torn leaves the other day, I could not resist an impulse to give some fragments of it to the public. Less