“I felt flattered to be the kinda person one would kick out of a saloon. That takes some character.”
“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”
“I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.”
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself”
“She even takes the goings-on of fictitious characters personally.”
“I had no idea what time it was, but I felt boneless and it would take an act of God to get me out of this bed. Or chocolate.”