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Letter "S" » Stephen Leacock Quotes
«We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor»
«I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so»
«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.»
«A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
«Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
«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.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
«The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
«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.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
«The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
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