A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee …

Charles Dickens
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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. ✨ Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)
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