Stephen Leacock quotes

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

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.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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

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

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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

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.

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

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