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Charles Dickens1812–1870

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

Charles Dickens on hope

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book the Third: The Track of a Storm, Chapter XV

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