home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- 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 dispair, 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 -- 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.
-