“It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.”

— Stephen Leacock , Literary Lapses

Reflections on Riding
Literary Lapses (1910)

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writer and economist 1869–1944

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