"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."
-Stephen Leacock
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
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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."
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"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
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"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."
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-John Desmond Bernal
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-John Desmond Bernal
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