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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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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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Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
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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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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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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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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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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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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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 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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