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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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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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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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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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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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 tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Chess is one long regret.
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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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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
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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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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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