“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.”

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

"That Two Heads are Better than One".
Sketches from Life (1846)

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British author and journalist 1804–1845

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