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.“
• "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.“
• "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.“
• "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.“
• "Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.“
• "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.“
• "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.“
• "It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.“
• "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.“
• "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.“
• "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.“
• "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.“
• "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.“
• "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.“
• "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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