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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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Stephen Butler Leacock
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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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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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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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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate 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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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've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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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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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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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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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
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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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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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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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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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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