Fenimore Cooper

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    The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    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.
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering his fellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)