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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with 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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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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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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Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
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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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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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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.
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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 tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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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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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
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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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