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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.
Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
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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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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.
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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 cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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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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 great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
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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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It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
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With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer an alleged murderer and the King of England the alleged King of England in order to avoid libel suits.
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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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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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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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