On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. -James Fenimore Cooper

 

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.


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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

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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.

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If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

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