"He argues that the world is getting better; that the danger from monopolies has been greatly magnified, and that human nature isn't so bad, after all."
SALESMEN AND SALESMANSHIP
"Hey, what did you go and sell them apples fer?"
"Ain't they fer sale?"
"No. Them was the samples we take out to our automobile customers."
"Who," asked the officiating clergyman, formally but impressively, "gives this bride away?"
"I—I was to," stammered her father, "but I've been a retail salesman too long to give anything away. Let somebody else do it."