Lynn Thompson
speaker
669 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
They have gone from attainment to attainment and from class to class, until they have become regularly graduated liars.
The air of the city is filled with falsehoods, and
They hang pendant from the chandeliers of our finest residences.
They crowd the shelves of some of our merchant princes, and
They fill the sidewalk from kerbstone to brownstone facing.
They cluster around the mechanic's hammer, and blossom from the end of the merchant's yardstick.
And sit in the doors of churches.
Some call them fictions.
Some style them fabrications.
You might say that they were subterfuge, disguise, delusion, romance, evasion, pretense, fable, deception, misrepresentation, and
But as I am ignorant of anything to be gained by the hiding of a god defying outrage under the lexicographer's blankets,
I shall chiefly call them what my father taught me to call them.
Lies.
I shall divide them into agricultural, mercantile, mechanical, and ecclesiastical lies, leaving those that are professional, social, and political for some other chapter.
First then I will speak of those that are more particularly agricultural.
There is something in the perpetual presence of natural objects to make a man pure.
The trees never issue false stock.
Wheat fields are always honest, and
Rye and oats never move out in the night, not paying for the place they have occupied.
Corn shocks never make false assignments.
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