Zitate und Sprüche von James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. Cooper ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Schlüsselfigur der amerikanischen Literatur. Neben Washington Irving war er der erste amerikanische Schriftsteller, der von seinen Büchern leben konnte.

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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

James Fenimore Cooper
 
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Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

James Fenimore Cooper
 
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Wenn die Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten zerbrechen sollte, dann vermutlich als Konsequenz falscher Tatsachen, mit denen die öffentliche Meinung manipuliert wurde.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

USA, Fake NewsJames Fenimore Cooper
 
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

James Fenimore Cooper
 
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

MonarchieJames Fenimore Cooper
 
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