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" Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. "
Money
Science
Get
" A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. "
Out
Something
Man
" Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. "
Astronomy
Use
Planets
" Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. "
Laughing
Own
British
" Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. "
Two
Positive
Electricity
" He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. "
He
Horse
Madly
" I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "
Find
Chance
Great
" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "
Death
Some
Day
" In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. "
Ancient
Statistics
Lies
" It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. "
Fishing
People
Who
" It may be those who do most, dream most. "
Dream
Who
Those
" It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it. "
Lie
Will
You
" It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. "
Economy
Politics
Political
" 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. "
Take
Courage
Forty
" Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. "
Day
Every Day
Late
" Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. "
Mistake
Girl
Love
" Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. "
Men
Dishonesty
Expect
" Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. "
Spirit
First
Christmas
" On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. "
Should
Same
Two
" Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. "
Than
Personally
Imagination
" The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. "
Class
Same
Literature
" The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. "
Figure
Anything
Cannot
" The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born. "
Said
Born
Lord
" There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. "
Information
Conversation
Two
" What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. "
Years
Creative
Day
" Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. "
Simplicity
You
Ideas
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