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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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Stephen Butler Leacock
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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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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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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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.
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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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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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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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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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