"If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it."
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Isa Blagden, The Crown of a Life (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869), Vol. III, Ch. XI; p. 155.
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