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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Irving Layton

Love

Soul

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Irving Layton

Want

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Irving Layton

Cynic

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.