Great Expectations - The Dilemma of Saving a Child
Mr. Jaggers:
Now, Pip: put the case that this legal advisor has often seen children tried at the criminal bar. Put the case that he has known them to be habitually imprisoned, whipped, neglected, cast out, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that here was one pretty little child out of the heap that could be saved. Put that last case to yourself very carefully, Pip. … Did he do right?
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Great Expectations - Value Evidence Over Appearances
Mr. Jaggers:
Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule.
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