"[T]hese old people—there's no trusting them, Fred. . . . [Y]ou can't calculate upon 'em, and even then they deceive you just as often as not."

I am a man that tries to do his duty, and makes a mess of it as often as not.

[I]f he discovered a sale where there were books he would as often as not waste half the next day in going again to acquire a job lot of them.

The hall porter said that, as often as not, the flat was untenanted.

As often as not, the perpetrators have been other Americans — motivated not by patriotism for a foreign flag, but by simple profit.

As often as not

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