"There's nothing like trying."
"There are many things very similar to failing, but none so bad."
"I'm willing to take the risk."
"Well, all right; but whom will you send? We can't waste a good man."
"I'll go myself."
"What, you?"
"Yes, I."
"Why, you'd be the laughing-stock of the State."
"All right; put me down for that office if I never reach the gubernatorial chair."
"Say, Lane, what was the name of that Spanish fellow who went out to fight windmills, and all that sort of thing?"