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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 1 Dec. 1860, issue 1, ch. 1.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 2.

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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.

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

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

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I loved her simply because I found her irresistible.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

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

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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 was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 13 July 1861, issue 33, ch. 54.

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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 3 Aug. 1861, issue 35, ch. 59.

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2010, ch. 59.

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

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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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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 18 May 1861, ch. 40.

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I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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