“The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.”
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“But give him a fable fresh from the mint of the Mendacity Society”
"That what Everybody Says must be True".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: There is an instinct that leads a listener to be very sparing of credence when a fact is communicated; it doesn't ring well in his ears—it has too much or too little gloss; he receives it with a shrug, and passes it on with a huge notch in it to show how justly it is entitled to suspicion; he is not to be imposed upon by a piece of truth. But give him a fable fresh from the mint of the Mendacity Society—an on dit of the first water—and he will not only make affidavit of its truth, but will call any man out who ventures to dispute its authenticity.
“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”
Source: The Collected Poems
[David Colander, “Functional Finance, New Classical Economics and Great Great Grandsons” (2002).
2000s
“In the open sea, he said. Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.”
Dreamland (2000)
Que ton vers soit la bonne aventure
Éparse au vent crispé du matin
Qui va fleurant la menthe et le thym…
Et tout le reste est littérature.
Source: "Art poétique", from Jadis et naguère (1884), Line 33, Sorrell p. 125
Milton Friedman, "Comments on the Critics", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 80, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1972)
The Wants of Man, stanza 1, published in The Quincy Patriot (25 September 1841)
The Tattoo Story http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/the_tattoo_story.phtml#997,
The Tucker Max Stories