Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Styles in wit change so.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Writers talk too much.