"Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?"

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Source : "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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“Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.205
“Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.”
“Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.”
“I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defence...The facts, which from our own experience forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be the dupes of such a suggestion.”
“Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.”
“I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.”

Source : "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.”
“I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.”

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