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The Stephen Leacock Quote Book
compiled by John Robert Colombo

Laugh along with Leacock ... with this light-hearted selection of Stephen Leacock's quips and quotes ... selected from his novels, essays, talks, and conversations by author and anthologist John Robert Colombo who supplies a preface. There are 600 or so observations about life and its foibles by the Sage of Mariposa. The Stephen Leacock Quote Book makes ideal light reading! Item: "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

"Here are words for the ages from Stephen Leacock. Memorable on every page. An Ideal Introduction to the wit and wisdom of a Canadian genius." — James A. "Pete" McGarvey, broadcaster and columnist.

Chapbook, 62 pp.
ISBN 1-55246-539-X $12.00

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