To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide, and Mo Poe Fo Yo: When You Just Can't Get Enough.