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Everybody is seldom to be believed. "They say" is not proof that they know. On dit is French for a fib.
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Two hats, we grant, may be better than one; yet is one enough at a time. It is so with the head. It should be sole and self-relying. We like to wear ours in single blessedness on our own shoulders, and not let it hanker after a place on other people's.
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How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!"
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Samuel Laman Blanchard
Born:
May 15, 1804
Died:
February 15, 1845
(aged 40)
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Samuel Laman Blanchard was a British author and journalist.
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