Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are…

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 19.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 16 Feb. 1861, issue 12, ch. 19.

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