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Quotation from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Great Expectations, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text)
The older narrator explains why he never told Joe about stealing food for the convict.
Citation: "In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong." — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text). (id great-expectations-q2)
Portrait: Greatexpectations vol1, Chapman & Hall, Public domain.
