"The European who comes to America plunges into……" — James Fenimore Cooper
"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 pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read."
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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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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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I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher…
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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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