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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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None are so easily taken in as the "knowing ones."

Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.

The course of truth never yet ran smooth.

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

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