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By Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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- A Tale of Two Cities (first book edition), 1859 · Book the Third, Chapter XV, "The Footsteps Die Out For Ever", p. 254
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- Internet Archive (Duke University scan of the first book edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, illustrated by H. K. Browne)
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The last line of Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities (London: Chapman and Hall, 1859), Book the Third, Chapter XV, "The Footsteps Die Out For Ever". The narrator imagines the thoughts of Sydney Carton as he goes to the guillotine in another man's place.