The Audacity of Nope

By emjohnson on September 19, 2009.

"As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth."

- William Hazlitt, "On Patronage and Puffing", 1822

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