It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask … - Samuel Laman Blanchard

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It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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Samuel Laman Blanchard (May 15, 1804 – February 15, 1845) was an English poet, essayist and journalist.

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

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It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his. - Samuel Laman Blanchard

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