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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles Dickens

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. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. – Charles Dickens

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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. – Charles Dickens

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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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