“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“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.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“But, the comfort was, that all the company at the grand hotel of Monseigneur were perfectly dressed. If the Day of Judgment had only been ascertained to be a dress day, everybody there would have been eternally correct.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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