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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
Economist
Humorist
Political Scientist
Writer
Hants
Stephen Butler Leacock
Love
Dissolve
Mist
Frame
Inside
Fact
Facts
Cannot
Needs
Depict

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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
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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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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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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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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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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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