I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Charles DickensAll other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
Charles Dickens