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Stephen Leacock
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Quotes by Stephen Leacock
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
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And beer rolled down the Tennessee and California Wine Was used as Blood for Hollywood.
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The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say, 'Willie is no good. I'll sell him.'
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
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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.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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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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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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