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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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Labor
Labrick
Lagniappe
Langtry, Lillie

Language
Laughing Jackass
Laughter
Laundry
Law
Lawyer
Laziness
Leadership
Learning
Lecturing
Legislators
Letters
Leopold - King Leopold II
Libel
Liberty
Library
License plates
Lies
Life
Lightning
Lincoln, Abraham
Lion of Lucerne
Liquor
Literature
Loneliness
Lonesome
Lords
Lotos Club
Lottery

Love
Loyalty
Luck
Lumbago - (private hotel variety)
Lunatics


July 1907, London England
Photograph by Sir Benjamin Stone.
"Among other honors heaped upon me by Englishmen was that of being photographed in parliament. I am not a member of parliament. But neither am I a member of congress. Has any fellow-American suggested that I should be photographed in congress? No! I blush to say they have not. And yet here is an honor that might without risk to bestowed on any great man. However, it was not bestowed upon Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. When I saw that photograph, with the mother of parliaments in the background and realized my advancing years, I said to myself, 'here are two noble monuments of antiquity--two shining examples of the survival of the fittest.'"
- quoted in the Boston Daily Globe, May 1, 1910, p. 56 in an article titled "His Camera Craze."



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