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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
By Stephen Leacock
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
By Stephen Leacock
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
By Stephen Leacock
The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.
By Stephen Leacock
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
By Stephen Leacock
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
By Stephen Leacock
Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
By Stephen Leacock
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
By 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.
By Stephen Leacock
I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
By Stephen Leacock
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
By Stephen Leacock
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
By Stephen Leacock
Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.
By Stephen Leacock
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
By Stephen Leacock
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
By Stephen Leacock