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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Read 2 times. Last read January 1, 2013 to March 1, 2013.

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Charles Dickens
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“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.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“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 himself to let it eat him away.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“A multitude of people and yet a solitude.”
Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities


Reading Progress

January 1, 2013 – Started Reading
March 1, 2013 – Finished Reading
June 26, 2013 – Shelved
September 25, 2016 – Started Reading (Other Hardcover Edition)
September 25, 2016 – Shelved (Other Hardcover Edition)
October 30, 2016 –
page 227
51.95% "mass of scarecrows heaving to and fro, with frequent gleams of light above the billowy heads, where steel blades and bayonets shone in the sun. A tremendous roar arose from the throat of St. Antoine, and a forest of naked arms struggled in the air like shrivelled branches of trees in a winter wind: all the fingers convulsively clutching at every weapon or semblance of a weapon that was thrown up from the depths below"
November 1, 2016 –
page 232
53.09% "The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown. The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and face hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them."
November 4, 2016 –
page 232
53.09% ""The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown. The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and face hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them.""
December 22, 2016 – Finished Reading (Other Hardcover Edition)

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