Fenimore Cooper

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    A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    Regularity and Decorum. ‘Tis what we women-authors, in particular, have been thought greatly deficient in; and I should be concerned to find it an objection not to be removed.
    —Elizabeth Cooper (fl. 1730s)