Old Charlie Dickens was flawless clear in 1859 when he said, in the first (and long) sentence of his exemplary work A Tale of Two Cities:
"It was the best of times, it was the most exceedingly awful of times, it was the time of knowledge, it was the time of silliness, it was the age of conviction, it was the age of suspicion, it was the period of Light, it was the period of Darkness, it was the spring of trust, it was the winter of gloom, we had everything before us, we don't had anything before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - to put it plainly, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest powers demanded its being gotten, for good or for malevolence, in the superlative level of correlation as it were."
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