Quotes about Stephen Leacock

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery...

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

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On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be...

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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a...

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

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

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

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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I...

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It may be those who do most, dream most.

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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people...

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

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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but...

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