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

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Tears Crying

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Pip

Author

Charles Dickens

Source

Great Expectations

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

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

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

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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Charles Dickens

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Time
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Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 29 Dec. 1860, issue 5, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 8.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Genre
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Language
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Time
1861 1860s 19th century
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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.