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

Stephen Leacock

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

Stephen Leacock

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

Stephen Butler Leacock

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

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

Stephen Leacock

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Stephen Leacock

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Stephen Leacock

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