It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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  No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

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  Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

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  History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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