From different authors, a conversation between two characters with the same job or position
‘Apart from being lawyers we seem to have little in common. I work for common people’s money whilst you work for the common good. I rarely leave London and you rarely stay there. I take on certainties, back winning horses, while you, riding horseback, go chasing uncertainties. Wemmick, my clerk, looks after my books while your man, Barak, looks after you. I afflict the comfortable while you comfort the afflicted. I am, king of the court, favoured by all and close to none whereas you court the favours of those who are close to the King. I back crooks and you are a crookback. And there, Matthew Shardlake is where we might have something in common after all. We are, both of us, bent lawyers.’
‘True, Mr. Jaggers, but Heaven or Hell bent, who can say? The jury is out and not until
Judgment Day shall we know the verdict.’
(Charles Dickens/CJ Sansom)
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