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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Source: On the Decay of the Art of Lying; repr. in The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain, ed. Charles Neider, 1961.-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
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