Agents Quote by Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”

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The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

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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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How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you…

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A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

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Chess is one long regret.

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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,…

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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This…

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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who…

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