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- It was the best of times,
- it was the worst of times,
- it was the age of wisdom,
- it was the age of foolishness,
- it was the epoch of belief,
- it was the epoch of incredulity,
- it was the season of Light,
- it was the season of Darkness,
- it was the spring of hope,
- it was the winter of despair,
- we had everything before us,
- we had nothing before us,
- we were all going direct to Heaven,
- we were all going direct
- the other way
- in short, the period was so far
- like the present period, that some
- of its noisiest authorities
- insisted on its being received,
- for good or for evil,
- in the superlative degree
- of comparison only.
- There were a king with a large jaw
- and a queen with a plain face,
- on the throne of England;
- there were a king with a large jaw
- and a queen with a fair face,
- on the throne of France.
- In both countries it was clearer
- than crystal to the lords of the
- State preserves of loaves and
- fishes, that things in general were
- settled for ever.
- It was the year of Our Lord
- one thousand seven hundred
- and seventy five.
- Chas. Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
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