Quotes about Stephen Leacock

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is...

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the...

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

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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the...

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

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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which...

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

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

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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The...

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it...

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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be...

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

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