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Title: ~ Stephen Leacock Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:16:31 AM
Stephen Leacock Quotes

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An English-born Canadian economist, writer and humorist.
Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was an English-born Canadian economist, writer and humorist.

Here are some famous quotes by Stephen Leacock.

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It may be that those who do most dream most.
Title: Re: ~ Stephen Leacock Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:16:59 AM
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:17:31 AM
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:17:59 AM
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:18:25 AM
Life we learn too late is in the living in the tissue of every day and hour.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:18:53 AM
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:19:19 AM
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Title: Re: ~ Stephen Leacock Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:19:50 AM
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:20:16 AM
Personally I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:20:43 AM
Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:21:12 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:21:42 AM
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:23:21 AM
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:24:06 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:24:40 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:45:18 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:45:55 AM
A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
Title: Re: ~ Stephen Leacock Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:47:11 AM
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:47:53 AM
In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:48:29 AM
I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
Title: Re: ~ Stephen Leacock Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:49:00 AM
The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.
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Post by: MysteRy on October 08, 2015, 10:50:04 AM
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.