A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label Stephen Leacock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Leacock. Show all posts
Monday, October 16, 2017

Quote of the Day (Stephen Leacock, on Advertising and Intelligence)

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"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."—Canadian ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Quote of the Day (Stephen Leacock, on Being a Humorist AND Economist)

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“Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to p...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Quote of the Day (Stephen Leacock, on Those Pesky High School Math Word Problems)

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“The occupations of A, B, and C are many and varied. In the older arithmetics they contented themselves with doing ‘a certain piece of ...
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