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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

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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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I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
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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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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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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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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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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Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
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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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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
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