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James Fenimore Cooper: The common faults...

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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Source: The American Democrat, On Language, 1838.
-- James Fenimore Cooper, (Sep 15 1789-1851), US novelist; He was the first important American novelist; wrote The Spy, 1821 and The Last of the Mohicans, 1826.


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