As soon as this has been done we shall be told that nine-tenths of the protoplasm of which we are composed must go the way of our non- protoplasmic parts, and that the only really living part of us is the something with a new name that runs the protoplasm that runs the flesh and bones that run the organs - Why stop here?
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Possession is in reality ten-tenths of the law.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
If you chew your food sufficiently, it will all be ninety-eight and six-tenths degree food when it gets to your stomach, and that is the way your stomach wants it.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair