Quote#Truth
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us…
Quote bySamuel Laman Blanchard · 1804–1845
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sketches from Life (1846), "That what Everybody Says must be True"..
English (original)
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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