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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.
Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
Economist
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock
You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
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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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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Stephen Leacock
When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of symbolism. If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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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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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I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
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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 minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
Stephen Leacock
American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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.
Stephen Leacock
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
Stephen Leacock
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen Leacock
Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
Stephen Leacock
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock