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Stephen Leacock Inspirational Quotes (57)

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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There is an old motto that runs, If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. This is nonsense. It ought to read, If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once.
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The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.
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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
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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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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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In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.
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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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