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Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.James Fenimore Cooper
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.. As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece in one ear, and that of the Sagamore in the other, I knew no enemy was on my back. Winters and summers, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be said that Uncas was taken to the torment, and I at hand - There is but a single ruler of us all, whatever maybe the color of the skin, and him I call to witness - that before the Mohican boy shall perish for the want of a friend, good faith shall depart the 'arth and 'Kill-deer' become as harmless as the tooting we'pon of the singer!.James Fenimore Cooper
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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.James Fenimore Cooper
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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!James Fenimore Cooper
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Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?James Fenimore Cooper
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No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you. .. (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97James Fenimore Cooper
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The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of hasteJames Fenimore Cooper
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...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.James Fenimore Cooper