Canadian - Economist | December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock
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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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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 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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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
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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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