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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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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.
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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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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
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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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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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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
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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 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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American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
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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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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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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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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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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
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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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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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When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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