"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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"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.“
-Stephen Leacock
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"Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl."
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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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"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
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"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."
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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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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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