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It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock - "Nonsense Novels"
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Canadian economist & humorist
1869 - 1944

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