Next the statesmen
will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the
nation that is attacked, and
every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities,
and will diligently study them, and
refuse to examine any
refutations of them; and thus he will by and by
convince himself that the war
is just, and will thank God for the
better sleep he enjoys after
this process of grotesque self-deception.
-- Mark Twain, The
Mysterious Stranger, 1916, Ch.9
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