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Quotation from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

“the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world”

Mark Twain (spoken by Mark Twain (narrator))

A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XXVI (Project Gutenberg #119)

Portrait of Mark Twain

Twain says the souvenir copies sold in Lucerne's shops miss what makes the original Lion of Lucerne, the memorial to the Swiss Guards of 10 August 1792, so moving.

Citation: "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world" — Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Chapter XXVI (Project Gutenberg #119). (id a-tramp-abroad-q1)

Portrait: A Tramp Abroad (1880), illustration by True Williams, True Williams, Public domain.

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