Author: Stephen Leacock

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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.

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

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

- Stephen Leacock

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.

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.

- Stephen Leacock

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

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

- Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

- Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

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.

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.

- Stephen Leacock

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.

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.

- Stephen Leacock

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