James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

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• It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a…
• All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of…
• The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest…
• Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions,…
• Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
• I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their…
• Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other…
• I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable?…
• The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a…

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