Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock: If I were...

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...

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Stephen Leacock: It may be...

Stephen Leacock: It may be...

It may be those who do most, dream most.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Stephen Leacock: A half truth,...

Stephen Leacock: A half truth,...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

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Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Stephen Leacock: Personally, I would...

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia...

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Stephen Leacock: Advertising may be...

Stephen Leacock: Advertising may be...

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from...

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Stephen Leacock: If every day...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Stephen Leacock: Humor may be...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression...

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Stephen Leacock: Electricity is of...

Stephen Leacock: Electricity is of...

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more...

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Stephen Leacock: I am a...

Stephen Leacock: I am a...

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

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Stephen Leacock: It takes a...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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Stephen Leacock: A sportsman is...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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Stephen Leacock: Golf may be...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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Stephen Leacock: Writing is no...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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Stephen Leacock: Life, we learn...

Stephen Leacock: Life, we learn...

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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Stephen Leacock: Men are able...

Stephen Leacock: Men are able...

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to...

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Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Source: Literary...

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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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Stephen Leacock: The Lord said...

Stephen Leacock: The Lord said...

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

Source: In The...

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Stephen Leacock: What we call...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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Stephen Leacock: A 'Grand Old...

Stephen Leacock: 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...

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