Spending all your time working may earn you a lot of money at the cost of your health.

It is said that one fifth of the human race are bananivorous.

Indeed, even if they are thoroughly examined and refuted in one age, they seem to reemerge within the next, and people will continue to believe them in spite of evidence to the contrary. This is what I have called the “unsinkable rubber duck” syndrome.

Some liquor here! Be quick, or he'll not stop, even for that. He is a man of such desperate ardour! said the smooth secretary, whom Mr Dennis corroborated with sundry nods and muttered oaths—Once roused, he is a fellow of such fierce determination!