You put in half the work and all the brains." "'Sall right," said Pete Johnson.

"You furnish the luck and personal pulchritude.

That ain't all, either.

I'm pickin' up some considerable education from you, learning how to pronounce words like that--pulchritude.

I mispronounced dreadful, I reckon." "I can tell you how to not mispronounce half as many words as you do now," said Stan.
"How's that ?" said Pete, greatly interested.
"Only talk half so much." "Fair enough, kid! It would work, too.