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I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
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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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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
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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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Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
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Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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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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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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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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All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.
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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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Chess is one long regret.
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