Canadian - Economist | December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
Stephen Leacock
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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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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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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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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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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from 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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