When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back t… - Samuel Laman Blanchard

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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.

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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