From "A Tale of Two Cities" (Charles Dickens)

"Some of [his colleagues],who were occasionally parties to the full-bodied wine and the lie, excused him for the latter by saying that he had told it so often, that he believed it himself -- which is such an incorrigible aggravation of an originally bad offence, as to justify any such offender's being carried off to some suitably retired spot, and there hanged out of the way."

This sentence might be hard to understand out of context, so here's the context: the "offender" is a man who was jilted, and who now brags that he was the jilter.

Great stuff.