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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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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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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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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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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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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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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 Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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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It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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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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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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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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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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