The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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