"I sometimes wish I had been educated a……" — James Fenimore Cooper
"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? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?"
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James Fenimore Cooper
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9 Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one…
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly…
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes…
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit…
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Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on…
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal…
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The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as…
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