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Quotation from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
Great Expectations, Chapter XIX (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text)
Leaving the village for London, Pip weeps at the finger-post and wishes he had parted from Joe more kindly.
Citation: "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, Chapter XIX (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text). (id great-expectations-q5)
Portrait: Greatexpectations vol1, Chapman & Hall, Public domain.
