Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself--it is the occurring which is difficult.
Stephen LeacockA sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
Stephen LeacockA sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
Stephen LeacockHe flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen LeacockI am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacockconcealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.
Stephen LeacockThe writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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