A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
More Quotes by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.