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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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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.
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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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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.
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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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