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Stephen Leacock
Data di nascita: 30. Dicembre 1869
Data di morte: 28. Marzo 1944
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Stephen Butler Leacock , economista e scrittore canadese.
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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
"Gertrude the Governess", Nonsense Novels (1911)
„My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.“
— Stephen Leacock
On leaving England at age seven.
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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
[http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+is+to+be+observed+that+angling+is+the+name+given+to+fishing+by+people+who+can't+fish%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage When Fellers Go Fishing], The Leacock Roundabout, (1945)
„Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.“
— Stephen Leacock
On achieving fame in Canada.
Three Score and Ten
„A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.“
— Stephen Leacock
Men Who Have Shaved Me
