Quotes by Stephen Leacock

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

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

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

#Economics, #Politics

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure,...

#Journalism, #Murder

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

#Play

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile...

#Prohibition

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

#Economics, #Politics