Quoting the funny Stephen Leacock - Part 1:

“Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.”

"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."

“It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.”

“A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.”

“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't”

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Stephen Butler Leacock,Ph.D , FRSC, was born on 30 December, 1869, in Swanmore, Hampshire, England. He was a writer and economist.

At age 6, Leacock and his family moved to Canada, settling on a farm in Egypt, Ontario, near the shores of Lake Simcoe. While the family had been comfortable in England, the farm in Georgina Township of York County was not a success and Leacock's family was quite poor.

Leacock . . . always of obvious intelligence . . . was sent to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was top of the class and so popular he was chosen as head boy. In 1887, seventeen year-old Leacock started at University College at the University of Toronto, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, but found he could not resume the following year due to financial difficulties. He left university to earn money as a schoolteacher . . . a job he disliked immensely . . . at Strathroy, Uxbridge and finally in Toronto. As a teacher at Upper Canada College, his alma mater, he was able to simultaneously attend classes at the University of Toronto and, in 1891, earn his degree through part-time studies. It was during this period that his first writing was published in The Varsity, a campus newspaper.

Disillusioned with teaching, he began graduate studies in 1899 at the University of Chicago where he received a doctorate in political science and political economy. He moved from Chicago, Illinois to Montreal, Quebec where he became a lecturer and long-time acting head of the political economy department at McGill University.

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