Dickens

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    If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)