It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 14.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 26 Jan 1861, issue 9, ch. 14.

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. — Charles Dickens

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