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Mr. Dodge, you have the high consolation of knowing that, throughout this trying occasion, you have conducted yourself in a way no other man of the party could have done.
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if a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.
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Who have we here? some amateur in fights! an inquisitive, wonder- seeking non-combatant, who has volunteered to serve his king, and perhaps draw a picture, or write a book, to serve himself! Pray, sir, in what capacity did you serve in this vessel?
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So much the better -- so much the better; for I have always found that a conceited man never knows content. All things prove it. Why have we not the wings of the pigeon, the eyes of the eagle, and the legs of the moose, if it had been intended that man should be equal to all his wishes?
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One, and she was the more juvenile in her appearance, though both were young, permitted glimpses of her dazzling complexion, fair golden hair, and bright blue eyes, to be caught, as she artlessly suffered the morning air to blow aside the green veil which descended low from her beaver.
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happy hunting-grounds
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natur'?
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Joan of Arc,
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Frontenackers
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else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam.
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natur' is natur',
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Tis true, the Delawares call me Deerslayer, but it's not so much because I'm pretty fatal with the venison as because that while I kill so many bucks and does, I've never yet taken the life of a fellow-creatur'. They say their traditions do not tell of another who had shed so much blood of animals that had not shed the blood of man.
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His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended, scalding tears rolled out of a fountain that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks that had oftener felt the storms of heaven, than any testimonials of weakness.
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The mind is apt to make some efforts to prove the fitness between its qualities and the condition of its owner, though it may often fail, and render that ridiculous which was only hated before.
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I have passed days thinking of these matters, out in the silent woods, and I have come to the opinion, boy, that as Providence rules all things, no gift is bestowed without some wise and reasonable end.
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which descended low from her beaver.
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We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.
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As for me, I taught the lad the real character of a rifle; and well has he paid me for it. I have fought at his side in many a bloody scrimmage; and so long as I could hear the crack of his piece in one ear, and that of the Sagamore in the other, I knew no enemy was on my back. Winters and summers, nights and days, have we roved the wilderness in company, eating of the same dish, one sleeping while the other watched; and afore it shall be s..
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loyalty
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Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano e in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il piu saggio di loro?
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saggezza
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'Tis grand! 'tis solemn! 'tis an education of itself to look upon!
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Those families, you know, are our upper crust--not upper ten thousand.
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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
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It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience.
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Is it justice to make evil and then punish for it?
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Chapter XXX, conclusion of the novel
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