"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." In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. Perhaps as interesting as the facts he reveals and the opinions he records about Dickens and George Eliot, politics and the civil service are the judgments he passes on his own character." 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. Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction.
His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester.
Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels.
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