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Quote by Stephen Leacock
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an arg

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

Other quotes by Stephen Leacock

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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Hockey
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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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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. – Barbra Streisand

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Trust

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be In cod we trust. It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And thats extraordinary. Its all because of either greed or politics – Canadian politics. – Simon Winchester

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I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust. – Monica Seles

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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust. – Bai Ling

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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. – Elbert Hubbard

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It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. – J.J. Walsh

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The magazine, the daytime show, weve always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less. – Rachael Ray

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I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. – Bobby Fischer

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