Entry 293

"Cooper delighted in confounding the ignorant with the mystification of jargon."

From James Fenimore Cooper: A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDY by JAMES GROSSMAN

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“The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority."
James Fenimore Cooper

"The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red-men has not yet come again...."
James Fenimore Cooper