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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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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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All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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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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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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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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