If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”
