Stephen Leacock Quotes About Economy
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything
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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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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
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Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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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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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born
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On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing
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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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