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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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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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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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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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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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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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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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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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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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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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer an alleged murderer and the King of England the alleged King of England in order to avoid libel suits.
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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 sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.
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