• To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

    Charles Dickens: To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
    Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.246