Now when I am seventy, I don't doubt I will have lost my teeth.

Losing one's teeth is such a distressing thing that I could sit here and weep bitterly for mine were it not for the sustaining power of my favorite quotation.
Why don't you adopt it for your favorite, too?
And, taking no thought for the morrow, is there any reason in the world why you shouldn't go out now and have a beautiful drive?
Going for a drive doesn't commit one to any philosophy of life, or line of action, does it?
And whatever you do, don't ever refuse nice things because you can't see the reason for people's doing them.

I shudder to think how much--or better, how little fun I would have had in life had I first been compelled to satisfy myself I was entitled to it.

We're entitled to nothing--most of us; that's all the more reason for taking all we can get.

But come now! Here are some fresh things--yours seem a bit dusty." In such wise she rambled on as a bewildered but unresisting girl surrendered herself to her wiles and hands.
When Katie returned from a call to the telephone it was to find Ann rubbing her hand over a pretty ankle adorned with the most silky of silken hose.