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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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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
Economist
Humorist
Political Scientist
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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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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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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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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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 road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.
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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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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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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything
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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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The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good I'll sell him.
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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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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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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