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Stephen Leacock

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Stephen Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.

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Quotes from Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

—Stephen Leacock

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

—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.

—Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

—Stephen Leacock

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

—Stephen Leacock