“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
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Joe says it to Pip after the young man has been taken in by a fortune-teller, and the plainness of the advice is the point. Dickens gives it to a working man with no stake in the mystery, which makes it sound like an occupational habit rather than a philosophy.
Source: Great Expectations