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

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) Canadian economist, writer and humorist
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) Canadian economist, writer and humorist
The Garden of Folly, “The Perfect Salesman” (1924)
 
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The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say: ‘Willy is no good: I’ll sell him.’

Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) Canadian economist, writer and humorist
The Lot of the Schoolmaster (1916)
 
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