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“Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.”

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Samuel Laman Blanchard

Samuel Laman Blanchard was an American author recognized for his significant contributions to literature. Born on May 15, 1804, and passing away on February 15, 1845, Blanchard's works have left a lasting impression on American literary history. more

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“Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .”

Political Life Is Social Political Life Diffusion Mendacity

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“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.”

Ifs May Stories Courses Belief Fiction Gone Currents Ran Relax Smooth Circuits Counterfeit

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.”

Facts Belief Fiction Treason Legitimacy

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional emphasis of affirmation, until at last "everybody says so," and then it is undeniable.”

Ifs Lasts Truth Is Abundance Affirmation Emphasis Rumor Scarcity Veracity

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.”

Ends Universal Errors Adoption

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.”

Literature Modern Blessing Constitution Presses Magazines Thanks Glorious Quotations Profitable Syllables Free Press Multiplying

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!”

Way Doe Book Happens Three Next Lines Sleep Months Obscure Three Months

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”

Life Wisdom Freedom Atheism Highest Conquer Persistence Each Day Persist Softball

Book:Faust: part one and sections from part two

Source: Faust: part one and sections from part two

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.”

Men Years Given Chance Half Path Talent Twenties Investing Reputation Fortunate Merit Prize Pretending Composition Renown

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard