A Tale of Two Cities Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name	Source
1	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 doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the 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.	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
2	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.	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
3	A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
4	The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was l	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
5	You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
6	You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter f	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
7	. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
8	Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
9	Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; . . .	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
10	I go so far as to say, miss, morehover, proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from a pulpit--and let my words be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through yourself--that wot my opinions respectin' flopping has undergo	Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities

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