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Quotes from The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea — James Fenimore Cooper

1789–1851 United States

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It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea (1823)

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