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> [How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/how-can-you-shorten-the-subject-that-stern-struggle-with-the/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

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> [The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/the-student-of-arithmetic-who-has-mastered-the-first-four-rules-of/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

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## Other authors on Arithmetic

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arithmetic/bertrand-russell/)

## More by Stephen Leacock

> [My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/my-parents-migrated-to-canada-in-1876-and-i-decided-to-go-with-them/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/you-frequently-ask-where-are-the-friends-of-your-childhood-and-urge/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/the-parent-who-could-see-his-boy-as-he-really-is-would-shake-his-head/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/it-s-called-political-economy-because-it-is-has-nothing-to-do-with/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/how-can-you-shorten-the-subject-that-stern-struggle-with-the/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/a-silk-dress-in-four-sections-and-shoes-with-high-heels-that-would/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/humor-may-be-defined-as-the-kindly-contemplation-of-the-incongruities/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [Chess is one long regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/chess-is-one-long-regret/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/a-lone-maple-leaf-resting-on-sand-have-you-ever-been-out-for-a-late/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/in-ancient-times-they-had-no-statistics-so-they-had-to-fall-back-on/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/suppose-a-would-be-writer-can-t-begin-i-really-believe-there-are-many/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/we-think-of-the-noble-object-for-which-the-professor-appears-tonight/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/many-a-man-in-love-with-a-dimple-makes-the-mistake-of-marrying-the/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/the-writing-of-solid-instructive-stuff-fortified-by-facts-and-figures/)

[Stephen Leacock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-leacock/)

> [Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-leacock/advertising-the-science-of-arresting-the-human-intelligence-long/)

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