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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens full novel

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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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 peri-
od, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being

received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of
comparison only. More

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