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By Charles Dickens
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…
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- A Tale of Two Cities (first book edition), 1859 · Book the First, Chapter I, "The Period", opening of the text (first page of the story)
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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 opening of Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities, Book the First, Chapter I, "The Period" (London: Chapman and Hall, 1859). The narrator speaks. The sentence continues after this point.