Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.