Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H Butler Leacock, FRSCwas a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910 and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was named in his honour...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 December 1869
CountryCanada
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.
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Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.
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Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.
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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.
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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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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.
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The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
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Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.
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All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.
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On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing
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In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.
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How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.
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Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.