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In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the…

Quote byJames Fenimore Cooper · 1789–1851

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Ch. 1.

English (original)

In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.

— James Fenimore Cooper

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