On the Decay of the Art of Lying
by Mark Twain · first published 1993
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on “I Think You're Fat (2007)” ↗…driven by technology. The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. - Mark Twain, "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. - Thomas Jefferson (By the way, Twain's…
on “The Curse of Bullshit” ↗On that note, I recommend Mark Twain's On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html
on “Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger” ↗On that note: On the Decay of the Art of Lying, by Mark Twain: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html
on “No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems” ↗…every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. (...)" Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html)
on “Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”” ↗A counter-point (kind of) - On the Decay of the Art of Lying, by Mark Twain http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/lyingessay.htm
on “I Think You're Fat (2007)” ↗…whom the angels doubtless say, "Lo, here is an heroic soul who casts his own welfare in jeopardy to succor his neighbor's; let us exalt this magnanimous liar." Excerpt from Mark Twain's "On the Decay of the Art of Lying", available on Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2572
on “The Curse of Bullshit” ↗…asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. Even in sermons—but that is a platitude. ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING, by Mark Twain http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html
on “Lying on your resume” ↗…his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude. (...) Excerpt of "On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying", by Mark Twain: http://www.online-literature.com/twain/1320/
on “Dutch Girl Fakes a Trip to South East Asia” ↗…centuries-old phenomena, nothing unique about our age. Harry Frankfurt's "On Bullshit" was a 1985 essay that got turned into a 2005 best selling book. Which itself restates a thesis by Mark Twain's 1880 "On the Decay of the Art of Lying."
on “We Live in the Age of the Bullshitter” ↗