It's a kind of mark of identification to go about with your head hanging out of your overcoat like that. It's such a devil-may-care, rakish sort of thing.Stephen Leacock
The particular crowning glory of Shakleton in the eyes of the townsmen...is the effect he produces at Mariposa when he swings off the afternoon accommodation train and then swings on to the waiting sleigh and yells, 'Drive like hell.'Stephen Leacock
One can hardly realize how many well-known men of the present day owe their success in literature and the professions to the fact that they were born and brought up in the little town.Stephen Leacock
The dividing line, in fact, between the urban and rural population ceases to be the mere boundary of the town itself and runs right through the houses and their life.Stephen Leacock
It was not always easy to tell just where the political opinions of Mariposa lay and with what party its deepest convictions were connected.Stephen Leacock
You have often realized the hopeless insufficiency of mere school instruction to cope with the obduracy of childhood...Stephen Leacock
A sort of mania or infatuation of debt sweeps over people till they plunge into it as recklessly as if it were pleasure.Stephen Leacock
I know no way in which a writer may more fittingly introduce his work to the public than by giving a brief account of who and what he is.Stephen Leacock
It is the dream-life for which we all secretly long, envisaged in the golden haze that, as we know, sheilded the speeding motor car.Stephen Leacock
If it was another man's dog — well and good. That was his own affair, and if it suited him to live in daily association with manure, that was a matter of taste.Stephen Leacock