Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
To each our own Hamlet.
the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.