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clerk

«A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.»
«People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.»
«It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.»
«A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.»
«Tip to out-of-town visitors: If you buy something here in New York and want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address»
«Your dexterity seems a happy compound of the smartness of an attorney's clerk and the intrigue of a Greek of the lower empire.»
«A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.»
«He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk / Descending from the bus: / He looked again, and found it was / A Hippopotamus. / `If this should stay to dine,' he said, / `There won't be much for us!'»