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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
Economist
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Political Scientist
Writer
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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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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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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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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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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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