"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
-Stephen Leacock
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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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"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."
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