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
book reading class
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 is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
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There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.
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About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
lying fall statistics
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
horse rooms economy
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
writing ideas simplicity
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.
ignorance carpe-diem encyclopedia-britannica
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
life learning tissues
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
use sun astronomy
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
science two differences
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.
inspirational motivational positive
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.