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

— Stephen Leacock

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Americans are queer people: they can't rest.

With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.

My Discovery of the West (1937)

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

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Literary Lapses (1910)

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