“Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!”
James Fenimore Cooper book The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer (1841), Ch. 6
“tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.”
— James Fenimore Cooper, book The Deerslayer
Source: The Deerslayer
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