Mark Twain

Mark Twain relaxes in a rocking chair in New Hampshire in 1905. Twain would turn 70 the year this photo was taken, and he had told The New York Times that he had never done a day’s work in his life.

“No, Sir, not a day’s work in all my life,” he is quoted in The New York Times in 1905, “What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it has been work I shouldn’t have done it.”