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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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Samuel Laman Blanchard
Age: 40 †
Born: 1804
Born: May 15
Died: 1845
Died: February 15
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Journalist
Yarmouth
Laman Blanchard
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Ran
Manifestly
Truth
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Grand
Circuit
May
Course
Relax
Counterfeit
Back
Almost
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Never
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Gone
Begin
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Story
Nobody
Smooth

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