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Stephen Leacock Quotes

«It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy»
Author: Stephen Leacock | About: Economics, Politics | Keywords: political economy
«A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something»
Author: Stephen Leacock | About: Play | Keywords: sportsman
«Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.»
Author: Stephen Leacock | Keywords: astronomy, planets
«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.»
«Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.»
«Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour»
Author: Stephen Leacock | About: Life
«It may be those who do most, dream most.»
«It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it»
«Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.»
«I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.»

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