“When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.” IfsMayStoriesCoursesBeliefFictionGoneCurrentsRanRelaxSmoothCircuitsCounterfeit Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.” FactsBeliefFictionTreasonLegitimacy Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard