That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club
To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.