The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels. - Murray Leinster

I've got an impossible job on my hands," he told them, "and if I succeed at it, there's an inconceivable one to follow.

It couldn’t happen! Hoddan couldn’t conceive of such a thing. But a recently developed pessimism suggested that since everything else, to date, had been to his disadvantage, this was probably a catastrophe also.

And, just as she had responded to primitive prowess, so Ron reacted to feminine admiration by an enormously increased urge to accomplish.