Quote by Stephen Leacock
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first ma

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. – Stephen Leacock

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock

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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 couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. – Stephen Leacock

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I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If its a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. – Gina Gershon

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Christmas

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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At Christmas, Its a Wonderful Life makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know its coming. – Nicholas Lea

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Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. – Charles Dickens

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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle

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