"If you tell it as you have just told it to me, it will make a hit," and I did.
I give it as the opinion of a long life of experience and observation that the newspaper press, whatever its delinquencies, is not a common liar, but the most habitual of truth tellers.

It is growing on its editorial page I fear a little vapid and colorless.

But there is a general and ever-present purpose to print the facts and give the public the opportunity to reach its own conclusions.
There are liars and liars, lying and lying.

It is, with a single exception, the most universal and venial of human frailties.

We have at least three kinds of lying and species, or types, of liars--first, the common, ordinary, everyday liar, who lies without rime or reason, rule or compass, aim, intent or interest, in whose mind the partition between truth and falsehood has fallen down; then the sensational, imaginative liar, who has a tale to tell; and, finally, the mean, malicious liar, who would injure his neighbor.
This last is, indeed, but rare.