More from Stephen Leacock

  1. It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
  2. 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 requ…
  3. In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
  4. It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
  5. I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
  6. It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
  7. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
  8. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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