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Stephen Leacock Quotes: Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
         

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.


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



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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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