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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

~Stephen Leacock

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It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

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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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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.

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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.

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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

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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.

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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Economist

Born: December 30th, 1869

Died: March 28th, 1944

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