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~ Stephen Leacock Quotes ~
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Stephen Leacock Quotes


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.




It may be that those who do most dream most.

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You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.

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

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

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« Reply #4 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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« Reply #5 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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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2015, 10:19:19 AM »
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

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« Reply #7 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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« Reply #8 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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« Reply #9 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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« Reply #10 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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« Reply #11 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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« Reply #12 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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« Reply #13 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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« Reply #14 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.