Fenimore Cooper

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

    “America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)