Stephen Leacock (1869–1944)

British-Canadian writer and economist .

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• "Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)--that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it--which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose--will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate."
  • Source: the Hohenzollerns in America.
• "You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?"
  • Source: Literary Lapses (1910).
• "The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence."
  • Source: Ibid.
• On leaving England at age seven: "My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them."
  • Source: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)

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