"It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another."

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Source : "Sketches from Life". Book by Laman Blanchard, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, "Memoire", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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“I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.”
“But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.”
“Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.”
“You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.”
“In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.”
“No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.”
“The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.”
“A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.”

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