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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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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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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with 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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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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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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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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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The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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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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