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Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Canadian Economist
Born: Dec 30, 1869
Died: Mar 28, 1944
Day Every Every Day Life People Trust
Related authors: Adam Smith Alan Greenspan E. F. Schumacher John Kenneth Galbraith John Maynard Keynes Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Thomas Sowell
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. Stephen Leacock
People Given Observed Name Fish Fishing Who
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Stephen Leacock
Love Man Marriage Mistake Girl Marrying Makes Many Whole
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Stephen Leacock
Fall Back Ancient Ancient Times Statistics Lies Had Times
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock
Trust Degree Men Entitled Exact Able Knowing Another Expect Dishonesty
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. Stephen Leacock
Life Day Every Day Too Late Living Every Too Late Hour Learn Tissue
It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock
Those Dream Most May Who
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock
Science Intelligence Money Long Enough Advertising Arresting Get Human Human Intelligence
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. Stephen Leacock
Flung Madly Directions Horse He Himself His Off Rode Room
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. Stephen Leacock
You Writing Simplicity Trouble Down Difficult Jot Ideas Occur Itself Just Which
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock
Death Day Some Shall Detest Argue Always Die Which Agents
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. Stephen Leacock
Angular Equal Anything Cannot Which Landlady Figure
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. Stephen Leacock
Born Said Lord Wheat
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock
Work Great Luck Great Believer Find More Am Believer Harder Chance
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock
Music Class Medicine Machinery Classics Only Primitive Same Literature Belong
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. Stephen Leacock
Own Way Section Laughing Except Wales Which Each British
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. Stephen Leacock
Same Thing Side Charges Same Should Bill Thing Two
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. Stephen Leacock
Will Think Assured Laugh Object Noble Lord Forgive Any May Which Who Appears Professor Tonight

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