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Chess is one long regret.
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 Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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