People are gouging, and shinning, and sucking all round.
It's give and take.

I am not here to look out for other men, I'm here to take care of myself--for nobody else will.

It's very sad, I know; it's very sad, indeed.

It's absolutely melancholy.

Ah, yes! where was I?
Oh! I was saying that a lie well stuck to is better than the truth wavering.
It's perfectly dreadful, my son, from some points of view--Christianity, for instance.