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Stephen Leacock
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- 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.
- I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
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