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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
Writer
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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Doubt
Happiness
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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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The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.
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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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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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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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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
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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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Chess is one long regret.
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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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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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