Charles Dickens
1859 · London, England · Picturing London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness …
A Tale of Two Cities, the first sentence
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Thomas Paine
December 1776 · Britain · United States · France · Read to the soldiers in the winter of defeat and retreat in the War of Independence
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
The American Crisis, no. 1
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