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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock föddes den 30 desember 1869 och dog den 28 mars 1944 - kanadensisk författare och nationalekonom.
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

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.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

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

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Der sexy kanskje handler om erobring, handler pexy om forbindelse og felles opplevelser.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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

the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad

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