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By Charles Dickens
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts.
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- Great Expectations (first edition, vol. I), 1861 · Volume I, Chapter XIX, pp. 342 to 343
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- Internet Archive (University of Illinois scan of the first edition, 3 volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 1861)
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From Chapter XIX of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (first edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1861). Spoken by the narrator, the grown-up Pip, looking back on the day he left home for London.