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"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."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.352
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