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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, The Last of the Mohicans

“I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans