In Theory, Everybody Buys The Best And Cheapest Commodities Offered To Him On The Market. In Practice, If Every One Went Around Pricing, And Chemically Testing Before Purchasing, The Dozens Of Soaps Or Fabrics Or Brands Of Bread Which Are For Sale, Economic Life Would Become Hopelessly Jammed.
We Only See In A Lifetime A Dozen Faces Marked With The Peace Of A Contented Spirit.
Like All Young Reporters - Brilliant Or Hopelessly Incompetent - I Dreamed Of The Glamorous Life Of The Foreign Correspondent: Prowling Vienna In A Burberry Trench Coat, Speaking A Dozen Languages To Dangerous Women, Narrowly Escaping Sardinian Bandits - The Usual Stuff That Newspaper Dreams Are Made Of.
A Mr. (save, Perhaps, Some Half Dozen In The Nation,) Always Needs A Note Of Explanation.
How Could I Make A Little Book, When I Have Seen Enough To Make A Dozen Large Books?
Jo's Eyes Sparkled, For It's Always Pleasant To Be Believed In; And A Friend's Praise Is Always Sweeter Than A Dozen Newspaper Puffs.