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.
More Quotes from 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
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country.
James Fenimore Cooper
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
James Fenimore Cooper
Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
James Fenimore Cooper
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