Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.