History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
("The Last of the Mohicans")
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country.James Fenimore Cooper
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.
James Fenimore Cooper
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
James Fenimore Cooper
The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
James Fenimore Cooper
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
James Fenimore Cooper
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