The Two Wide Cities

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 beliefs, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct to to the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being recieved, for good or for evil, In the superlative degree of comparison only.