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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
Stephen Leacock
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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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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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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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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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