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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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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
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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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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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 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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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Chess is one long regret.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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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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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Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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