"It was Einstein who made the real trouble.……" — Stephen Leacock
"It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was."
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82 Quotes by Stephen Leacock
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In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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Chess is one long regret.
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo,…
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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing…
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Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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