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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.

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 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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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
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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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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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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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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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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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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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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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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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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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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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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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