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

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KING LEOPOLD II, King of the Belgians

Beside Leopold, Nero, Caligula, Attilo, Torquemada, Genghis Khan and such killers of men are mere amateurs.
- statement published in the New York World, December 3, 1905

King Leopold II
Leopold II, King of the Belgians
1839-1909

In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years. In this vast statement I am well within the mark, several millions of lives with the mark. It is curious that the most advanced and most enlightened century of all the centuries the sun has looked upon should have the ghastly distinction of having produced this moldy and peity-mouthing hypocrite, this bloody monster whose mate is not findable in human history anywhere, and whose personality will surely shame hell itself when he arrives there--which will be soon, let us hope and trust.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

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