Charles Dickens Quote

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.


The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit (ed. 1854)


Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor...

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor...

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor...

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor...