“ Men find the bad among us easily enough—among what peoples are the bad not easily found?—but they take the worst of us as samples of the best ”
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
|---|---|
| Source | Our Mutual Friend |
| Topic | good |
| Date | 1865 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/883/883-h/883-h.htm |
Context
“For it is not, in Christian countries, with the Jews as with other peoples. Men say, “This is a bad Greek, but there are good Greeks. This is a bad Turk, but there are good Turks.” Not so with the Jews. Men find the bad among us easily enough—among what peoples are the bad not easily found?—but they take the worst of us as samples of the best; they take the lowest of us as presentations of the highest; and they say “All Jews are alike.” If, doing what I was content to do here, because I was grateful for the past and have small need of money now, I had been a Christian, I could have done it, compromising no one but my individual self.”
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