I was in hopes you were going to practice a thorough system of economy, in order to get beforehand." "I did try, but it's no use.

As to giving up tobacco, that is out of the question.

I can't do it.

Nor could you, if you had ever formed the bad habit of chewing or smoking." "We can do almost any thing, if we try hard enough, Johnson.

We fail, because we give up trying.