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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Chess is one long regret.
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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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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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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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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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There is an old motto that runs, If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. This is nonsense. It ought to read, If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once.
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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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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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