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The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
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It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
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He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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