"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. This text studies an axiological illness. Mark Twain Michael Scott 17 min This humorous short essay is written with all the wit and biting sarcasm that is one of the trademarks of Mark Twain. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. This characteristic is found clearly in a book that is not commonly referenced: On the Decay of the Art of Lying. The essay, Twain notes, was "offered for the thirty-dollar prize," but it "did not take the prize." The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously to lie with a good object, and not an evil one to lie for others' advantage, and not our own to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling. 0 50 Eternal Masterpieces of Detective Stories Vol: 2 (Golden Deer Classics) 5,0. In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut.
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