“I am very good at groveling.”
“I was going to die, but I didn't have to grovel.”
“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”
“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”
“Well, damme, William, I am sorry: I am very sorry, indeed I am. But injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.”