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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us ... at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
— Stephen Leacock
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
— Stephen Leacock
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. — Stephen Leacock
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
— Stephen Leacock
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
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The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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Concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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To me, as a lover of Nature, the waving of a tree conveys thoughts which are never conveyed to me except by seeing a tree wave.
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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American politicians do anything for money ... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
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I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.
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Chess is one long regret.
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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
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The great man ... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
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Education that stops with school stops where it is beginning.
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Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.
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Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
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The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itselfit is the occurring which is difficult. — Stephen Leacock
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.
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Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.
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The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
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broke into a blaze of effulgence.
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The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
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Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
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Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.
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A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.
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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
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The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.
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To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.
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