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Stephen Leacock
 
Date of birth: 30 December 1869
Date of death: 28 March 1944
Country Of Origin: Canada
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" A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. "

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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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" Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. "

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" Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. "

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

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" Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. "

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" Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. "

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" Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. "

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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. "

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" He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. "

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" I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "

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" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "

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" 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. "

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

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" It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. "

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