LIAR.  ‘The greatest liar tells more truth than falsehood,’ iii. 236.

LIBEL.  ‘Boswell’s Life of Johnson is a new kind of libel’
(Dr. Blagden), iv. 30, n. 2.

Liber.  ‘Liber ut esse velim,’ &c., i. 83, n. 3.

LIBERTY.  ‘All boys love liberty,’ iii. 383;
  ‘I am at liberty to walk into the Thames,’ iii. 287;
  ‘Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as religion in mine’ (Wilkes),
iii. 224;
  ‘No man was at liberty not to have candles in his windows,’ iii. 383;
  ‘People confound liberty of thinking with liberty of talking,’ ii. 249.

LIBRARIES, ‘A robust genius born to grapple with whole libraries’ (Dr. Boswell), iii. 7.

LIE.  ‘Do the devils lie?  No; for then Hell could not subsist’
(attributed to Sir Thomas Browne), iii. 293;
  ’He carries out one lie; we know not how many he brings
back,’ iv. 320;
  ’If I accustom a servant to tell a lie for me, have I not reason
to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself?’ i. 436;
  ‘Sir, If you don’t lie, you are a rascal’ (Colman), iv. 10;
  ‘It is only a wandering lie,’ iv. 49, n. 3;
  ‘It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive,’ v. 217;
  ‘Never lie in your prayers’ (Jeremy Taylor), iv. 295.

LIED.  ’Why, Sir, I do not know that Campbell ever lied with pen and ink,’ iii. 244.

LIES.  ‘Campbell will lie, but he never lies on paper,’ i. 417, n. 5;
  ’Knowing as you do the disposition of your countrymen to tell
lies in favour of each other,’ ii. 296;
  ‘He lies and he knows he lies,’ iv. 49;
  ‘The man who says so lies,’ iv. 273;
  ‘There are inexcusable lies and consecrated lies,’ i. 355.

LIFE.  ‘A great city is the school for studying life,’ iii. 253;
  ‘His life was marred by drink and insolence,’ iv. 161, n. 4;
  ‘It is driving on the system of life,’ iv. 112;
  ‘Life stands suspended and motionless,’ iii. 419;
  ‘The tide of life has driven us different ways,’ iii. 22.

LIGHTS.  ’Let us have some more of your northern lights; these are mere farthing candles,’ v. 57, n. 3.

LIMBS.  ‘The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,’ iii. 38, n. 6.

LINK.  ‘Nay.  Sir, don’t you perceive that one link cannot clank,’ iv. 317.

LITTLE.  ’It must be born with a man to be contented to take up with little things,’ iii. 241.

LOCALLY.  ‘He is only locally at rest,’ iii. 241.

LONDON.  ‘A London morning does not go with the sun,’ iv. 72;
  ‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life,’ iii. 178.

LORD.  ‘His parts, Sir, are pretty well for a Lord,’ iii. 35;
  ’Great lords and great ladies don’t love to have their mouths
stopped,’ iv. 116;
  ‘A wit among Lords’:  See below, WITS.

LOUSE.  See above, FLEA.

LOVE.  ‘It is commonly a weak man who marries for love,’ iii. 3;
  ‘Sir, I love Robertson, and I won’t talk of his book,’ ii. 53;
  ’You all pretend to love me, but you do not love me so well as
I myself do,’ iv. 399, n. 6.