Where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
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The Last of the Mohicans by
James Fenimore Cooper
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
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The Last of the Mohicans by
James Fenimore Cooper
"Why should Tamenund stay? The pale faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red men has not yet come again. My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans."
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The Last of the Mohicans by
James Fenimore Cooper
"Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?"
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The Last of the Mohicans by
James Fenimore Cooper