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“Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.”

Quote by James F. Cooper

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James F. Cooper

James F. Cooper was an American writer renowned for his historical novels, which often depicted the life on the American frontier. His works are characterized by their vivid portrayal of characters and social changes. Cooper was born on September 15, 1789, and died on September 14, 1851. more

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“One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.”

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“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.”

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“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”

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