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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike—information and wit.
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It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
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Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.
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Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
December 30, 1869
Died:
March 28, 1944
(aged 74)
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