"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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- "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
- "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
- "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica."
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- "One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights."― James K. Polk
- "At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."― Samuel Johnson
- "I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing."― Ernie Harwell