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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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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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Political Scientist
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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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