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Stephen Leacock
If I were...
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room...
It may be...
It may be those who do most, dream most.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
A half truth,...
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...
Personally, I would...
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia...
Advertising may be...
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from...
If every day...
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with...
Humor may be...
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression...
Electricity is of...
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more...
I am a...
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It takes a...
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a...
A sportsman is...
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He...
Golf may be...
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral...
Writing is no...
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself -- it is the...
Life, we learn...
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Men are able...
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to...
Astronomy teaches the...
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Source: Literary...
The classics are...
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...
The Lord said...
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
Source: In The...
What we call...
What we call creative work ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. . . . I imagine that Thomas Edison...
A 'Grand Old...
A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till...