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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Stephen Leacock

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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

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.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.