“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.