"So--you would perhaps have been such a man as he if your education had not hindered; for you are like him in features:--yet not altogether, young man. He had an iron will in his face: it braced up everybody about him. When he was quite young he had already got one deep upright line in his brow. I see none of that in you. Daniel Charisi used to say, 'Better, a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.' What he despised most was indifference. He had longer reasons than I can give you."
"Yet his knowledge was not narrow?" said Deronda, with a tacit reference to the usual excuse for indecision--that it comes from knowing too much.

"You would perhaps have been such a man as he if your education had not hindered it; for you are like him in features:- yet not altogether. He had an iron will in his face. I see none of that in you. Daniel Charisi used to say, 'Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a false belief than no belief at all.' What he despised most was indifference."
"Yet his knowledge was not narrow?" said Deronda.
