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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

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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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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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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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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The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good I'll sell him.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
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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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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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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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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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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 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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of symbolism. If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
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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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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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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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