Samuel Laman Blanchard Short Quotes

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Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity.

Samuel Laman Blanchard
What if two negatives make an affirmative... does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

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It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

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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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No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.

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When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.

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As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not."

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Wherever two or three are gathered together, one, at least, has left his head at home in his night-cap, or hung it up in his hat as he entered.

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Of Shakespeare, not a line but has been repeatedly, and will continue to be cited, as a commentary on the great and various volume of human nature.

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We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy.

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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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Give me to live with Love alone
And let the world go dine and dress;
For Love hath lowly haunts...
If life's a flower, I choose my own—
'T is "love in Idleness".

Samuel Laman Blanchard