Canadian humorist (1869-1944)
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
The Garden of Folly
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Humour and Humanity: An Introduction to the Study of Humour
It may be those who do most, dream most.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
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