Truth Is Not Exciting Enough

Sedition Is Bred In The Lap Of Luxury And Its Chosen Emissaries Are The Beggared Spendthrift And The Impoverished Libertine.

Truth Is Not Exciting Enough To Those Who Depend On The Characters And Lives Of Their Neighbors For All Their Amusement; And If A Story Is Told Of More Than Common Interest, Ennui Is Sure To Have Its Joy In Adding Embellishments. If Hours Did Not Hang Heavy, What Would Become Of Scandal?

In 1688 England Contracted To The Netherlands The Highest Debt That One Nation Can Owe To Another. Herself Not Knowing How To Recover Her Liberties, They Were Restored By Men Of The United Provinces.

Style Is The Gossamer On Which The Seeds Of Truth Float Through The World.

If Hours Did Not Hang Heavy, What Would Become Of Scandal?