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Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
— Stephen Leacock
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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.
— Stephen Leacock
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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
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
— Stephen Leacock