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  1. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?" Responding to his softened manner, Mr. Lorry answered: "Twenty years back, yes; at this time of my life, no. For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way. My heart is touched now, by many remembrances that had long fallen asleep, of my pretty young mother {and I so old!}, and by many associations of the days when what we call the World was not so real with me, and my faults were not confirmed with me.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay
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  3. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    Era el mejor de los tiempos y era el peor de los tiempos; la edad de la sabiduría y también de la locura; la época de las creencias y de la incredulidad; la era de la luz y de las tinieblas; la primavera de la esperanza y el invierno de la desesperación. Todo lo poseíamos, pero nada teníamos; íbamos directamente al cielo y nos extraviábamos en el camino opuesto. En una palabra, aquella época era tan parecida a la actual, que nuestras más notables autoridades insisten en que, tanto en lo que se refiere al bien como al mal, sólo es aceptable la comparación en grado superlativo.
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  4. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
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  5. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.
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  6. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.
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  7. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
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  8. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
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  9. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
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  10. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
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  11. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips."Are you dying for him?" she whispered."And his wife and child. Hush! Yes.""Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?""Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last."
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  12. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
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