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. Leipzig, Junho de 1921 (data na contracapa) / 1882 (data no miolo)
. Vol.2077 da Tauchnitz Edition, collection of British and American Authors
. 288 páginas
. Valor inclui portes em correio editorial
"ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING.
Essay, for discussion, read at a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, and offered for the thirty-dollar prize. Now first published.*
Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the "custom" of lying has suffered any decay or interruption—no, for the Lie, as a Virtue, a Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man´s best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this Club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the "art" of lying. (...)
* Did not take the prize."
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