Quotation of the Week 29

“[He] was about to open his lecture, when one of his students rose in his seat and asked a question. It is a practice… which, I need hardly say, we do not encourage; the young man, I believe, was a newcomer in the philosophy class.”

Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, 1914.

Economic historian and numismatic consultant

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