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NOVELISTS > novelist, dramatist > Charles Dickens
I have known...
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Source: The narrator (Mr. Sampson), in Hunted Down, ch. 2, New York Ledger (1859; repr. in All the Year Round, 1860).
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.