"An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!"
Great Expectations spends a lot of time masterfully illustrating both how hard and how easy it is to do what is right by showing how easy it is to do what is wrong and how obvious it is that it's wrong.
Friday, December 26, 2008
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