Great Expectations

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   Pip asks Wemmick for his opinion as to whether or not to help his friend Herbert get started in the business world. Wemmick's response is a cynical one: "Choose your bridge . . . and take a walk upon [it] and pitch your money into the Thames over the centre arch of your bridge, and you know the end of it. Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too--but it is a less pleasant and profitable end."

   Wemmick feels that one should never "invest portable property in a friend" unless he does not want to be friends anymore!

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