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On the Decay of the Art of Lying
''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. Twain published the text in ''The Stolen White Elephant Etc.'' (1882).〔Twain, Mark. ''Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1852-1890.'' Ed. by Louis J. Budd. New York: Library of America, 1992. 1020.〕
In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. He concludes by insisting that:
''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.''
The essay, Twain notes, was "offered for the thirty-dollar prize," but it "did not take the prize."
==See also==
* ''The Decay of Lying'' by Oscar Wilde, 1891.
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