On the Decay of the Art of Lying

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By Mark Twain

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"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. The essay, Twain notes, was "offered for the thirty-dollar prize," but it "did not take the prize." 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