A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."
Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.