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Stephen Leacock Quote: “It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish.”

51. “It is to be observed that ‘angling’ is the name given to fishing by people who can’t fish.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.”

53. “In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.”

54. “It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.”

55. “Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “All Dickens’s humour couldn’t save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens’s humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.”

56. “All Dickens’s humour couldn’t save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens’s humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It’s the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it’s all the same.”

57. “In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It’s the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it’s all the same.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn’t.”

58. “The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn’t.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.”

59. “Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.”

60. “To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.”

61. “You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “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.”

63. “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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Stephen Leacock Quote: “On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.”

64. “On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.”

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

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.”

66. “You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “Pupkin shifted his opinions like the glass in a kaleidoscope.”

67. “Pupkin shifted his opinions like the glass in a kaleidoscope.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes’s work is a vast piece of “symbolism.” If so, Cervantes didn’t know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.”

69. “Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes’s work is a vast piece of “symbolism.” If so, Cervantes didn’t know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.”

70. “I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “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.”

71. “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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Stephen Leacock Quote: “A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”

72. “A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.”

73. “My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “When actors begin to think, it’s time for a change. They are not fitted for it.”

74. “When actors begin to think, it’s time for a change. They are not fitted for it.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “It just shows the difference between people. There was Myra who treated lovers like dogs and would slap them across the face with a banana skin to show her utter independence. And there was Miss Cleghorn, who was sallow, and who bought a forty cent Ancient History to improve herself: and yet if she’d hit any man in Mariposa with a banana skin, he’d have had her arrested for assault.”

75. “It just shows the difference between people. There was Myra who treated lovers like dogs and would slap them across the face with a banana skin to show her utter independence. And there was Miss Cleghorn, who was sallow, and who bought a forty cent Ancient History to improve herself: and yet if she’d hit any man in Mariposa with a banana skin, he’d have had her arrested for assault.”

— Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock Quote: “The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.”

76. “The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “The only time when you and I really entered into literature, entered the kingdom of letters, was when each of us sat as a child absorbed in the magic pages of a book: in some snug corner of a quiet room or sheltered in some lost recess of the seashore with the muffled sound of the wind and sea to concentrate our thought – that is reading, that is literature.”

77. “The only time when you and I really entered into literature, entered the kingdom of letters, was when each of us sat as a child absorbed in the magic pages of a book: in some snug corner of a quiet room or sheltered in some lost recess of the seashore with the muffled sound of the wind and sea to concentrate our thought – that is reading, that is literature.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.”

78. “Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.”

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Stephen Leacock Quote: “Pepperleigh always read the foreign news – the news of things that he couldn’t alter – as a form of wild and stimulating torment.”

79. “Pepperleigh always read the foreign news – the news of things that he couldn’t alter – as a form of wild and stimulating torment.”

— Stephen Leacock

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