"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."

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Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#Relax Quotes #Gone Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.”
“Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.”
“I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university. The lights were on in the architecture school when I got out of rehearsal at night. And I thought the men were handsome.”

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“We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?”
“We don't reinvest in the American people. We don't put enough money into American education.”

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“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
“For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.”

Source : "Laughing Ann". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1925.
“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”

Source : Letter to Edith. "J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, p. 66, 1977.

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