There is no such thing as “breaking the bank at Monte Carlo.” This particular player won so fast upon two or three “spins” that the table at which he played had to suspend until it could be replenished by another “bank,” perhaps ten minutes in point of time.
Watterson challenges the myth of 'breaking the bank' at Monte Carlo, emphasizing the reality of gambling outcomes.
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O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!
But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.
Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.
With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.
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