{"date":"July 9","id":"07-09","intro":["“What is Truth?” asked Pilate. For an answer Bacon discourses not on human nature as it should be, but as it is. These shrewd observations on making a life and a living admit occasional departures from truth."],"minutes":26,"readings":[{"author":"Francis Bacon","end":19,"start":7,"volume":3,"work":"Essays"}],"slug":"july-9","status":"proofread","title":"A Little Lying Now and Then","url":"/harvard-classics/july-9/","words":5278}