Creator: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),famed humorist Context: Understanding the humor in the following passage requires familiarity with the cherry tree legend. A young Washington received a hatchet as a gift and impetuously chopped down a cherry tree owned by his father. When the future president was confronted he said “I cannot inform a lie. …Continue reading I Have a Higher and Grander Standard of Principle. Washington Could Not Lie. I Can Lie, But I Won’t
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