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It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.
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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
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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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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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There is an old motto that runs, If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. This is nonsense. It ought to read, If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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