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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock föddes den 30 december 1869 och dog den 28 marts 1944 - kanadensisk författare och nationalekonom.
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Jag avskyr livförsäkringsagenter. De säger alltid att jag ska dö en dag, och så är inte fallet.

Det kallas nationalekonomi därför att det inte har att göra med vare sig nationen eller ekonomin.

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.

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't

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

The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.

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

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it

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

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Advertising may be described as 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

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

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