My Parents Migrated To Canada In 1876,

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 Out Of One's Own Mind, Worth Reading For Its Own Sake, Is An Arduous Contrivance Only To Be Achieved In Fortunate Moments, Few And Far In Between. Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

It Is Difficult To Be Funny And Great At The Same Time. Aristophanes And Moliere And Mark Twain Must Sit Below Aristotle And Bossuet And Emerson.

As For Politics, Well, It All Seemed Reasonable Enough. When The Conservatives Got In Anywhere, [judge] Pepperleigh Laughed And Enjoyed It, Simply Because It Does One Good To See A Straight, Fine, Honest Fight Where The Best Man Wins. When A Liberal Got In, It Made Him Mad, And He Said So,-not, Mind You; From Any Political Bias, For His Office Forbid It,-but Simply Because One Can't Bear To See The Country Go Absolutely To The Devil.

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