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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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.
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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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Stephen Leacock
Profession
Economist
BirthDate
30 December, 1869
DeathDate
28 March, 1944
Country
Canada
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