Stephen Leacock citations

Stephen Leacock est un enseignant, politologue, économiste, écrivain et humoriste canadien. Il est considéré comme l'humoriste anglophone le plus connu du monde de 1915 à 1925. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. décembre 1869 – 28. mars 1944
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Stephen Leacock: Citations en anglais

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”

Stephen Leacock Literary Lapses

Insurance up to Date
Literary Lapses (1910)

“My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.”

Stephen Leacock livre Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

On leaving England at age seven.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)

“It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”

When Fellers Go Fishing http://books.google.com/books?id=I-kCAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It+is+to+be+observed+that+angling+is+the+name+given+to+fishing+by+people+who+can't+fish%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, The Leacock Roundabout, (1945)