In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature Scotch for sermons and American for conversation.
It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what you would expect--a...
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Jack McClelland
I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
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Jon Stewart
Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID, " said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN." Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out.
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Adam Rex
What part of Canada are you from, honey?"" T H E LEFT PART, " said Jay.
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Adam Rex
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.
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Michael Ondaatje
More Quotes By 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 the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something...
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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
