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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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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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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I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
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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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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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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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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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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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The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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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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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
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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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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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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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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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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