Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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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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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

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Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Stephen Leacock in Nonsense Novels (1911)
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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.

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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

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