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Stephen Leacock [1869-1944] Canadian

Rank: 101
Economist, Writer

Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSC was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world.

Trust, Chance, Christmas, Courage, Death, Funny, Imagination, Intelligence, Marriage, Money, Politics, Positive, Science, Truth, Work

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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.	Intelligence, Money, Science	101
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.		102
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.	Marriage	103
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.		104
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.	Death	105
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.	Work	106
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.	Christmas	107
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.	Politics	108
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.	Trust	109
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.		110
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.		111
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.	Trust, Truth	112
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.	Funny	113
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.		114
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.		115
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.		116
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.		117
It may be those who do most, dream most.		118
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.		119
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.		120
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.		121
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.	Chance	122
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.	Imagination	123
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.		124
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.	Courage	125
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.	Positive	126
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.		201
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.		202
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.		203
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.		204

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