But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.