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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.

~Stephen Leacock

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The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

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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.

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

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It may be those who do most, dream most.

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

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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.

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

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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.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Economist

Born: December 30th, 1869

Died: March 28th, 1944

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