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Today, it's episode 19, and it's a tale of two cities by Charles Dickens.

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Chapter 1. The period. 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 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.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face. On the throne of France,

in both countries it was clearer than crystal to the

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