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Stephen Leacock
December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Economist

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.

   

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

   

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

   

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.

   

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.

   

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

   

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.

   

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

   

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

   

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

   

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