Uno amore...a lieto fin pervenuto, in una novelletta assai piccola intendo di raccontarvi.
Fifth Day, Fourth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“The course of truth never yet ran smooth.”
"That what Everybody Says must be True".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: 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.
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Donald Barthelme
(1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor
“The Conservatory” [play], p. 292.
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Theodore Chickering Williams
(1855–1915) American hymnwriter
The Voyage of Life, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).