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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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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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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 our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.
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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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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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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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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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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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