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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
A POCKET-
HANDKERCHIEF
by James Fenimore Cooper
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF
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CHAPTER I.
Certain moral philosophers, with a due disdain of the flimsy
foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally
descended from a million of ancestors, within a given number of
generations; thereby demonstrating that no prince exists who does not
participate in the blood of some beggar, or any beggar who does not share
in the blood of princes. Although favored by a strictly vegetable descent
myself, the laws of nature have not permitted me to escape from the
influence of this common rule. The earliest accounts I possess of my
progenitors represent them as a goodly growth of the Linum
Usitatissimum, divided into a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly
well conditioned, and remarkable for an equality that renders the
production valuable. In this particular, then, I may be said to enjoy a
precedency over the Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than
four different states of Europe, and who have sat on thrones these
thousa......
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