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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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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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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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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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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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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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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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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All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.
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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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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.
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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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Chess is one long regret.
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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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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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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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