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

— Stephen Leacock

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

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

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)

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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