All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and …

Charles Dickens
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. ✨ Charles Dickens (1881). Great Expectations, p.254
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