Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief Author:James Fenimore Cooper 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 ... more »of princes. (Excerpt)« less