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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
Stephen Leacock
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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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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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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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With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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