Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.
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."