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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions

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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't

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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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Astronomy Quotes

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.

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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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Lies And Lying Quotes

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl

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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 Quotes

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.

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Ideas

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

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The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so

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the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad - Stephen Leacock Quotes

the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad

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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" to avoid libel suits.

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Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

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The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.

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Class

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy - Stephen Leacock Quotes

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy

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A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something - Stephen Leacock Quotes

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

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Man

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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It may be those who do most, dream most. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

It may be those who do most, dream most.

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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it - Stephen Leacock Quotes

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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Intelligence Quotes

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

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

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Hard Work Quotes

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor - Stephen Leacock Quotes

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor

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Night

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so - Stephen Leacock Quotes

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so

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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 Quotes

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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A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

A '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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Man

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 Quotes

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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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. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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

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`A', whispered C, `I think I'm going fast.' `How fast do you think you'll go, old man?' murmured A. `I don't know,' said C, `but I'm going at any rate.' - Stephen Leacock Quotes

`A', whispered C, `I think I'm going fast.' `How fast do you think you'll go, old man?' murmured A. `I don't know,' said C, `but I'm going at any rate.'

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Man

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

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Books And Reading

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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Advertising Quotes

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 Quotes

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.

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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. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. - Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

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