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“The dawning Republic One and Indivisible, of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death.”

“In the name of that sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine, why did you come to France?”

Evidently believing George Washington would become as famous as George the 3rd was close to heresy for these Brits lol.

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room…encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts…, is…a secret to the heart nearest it!”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” is the beginning of the first sentence of this story. All in all this sentence is its own paragraph, and it is easily the most detailed introduction I have ever read for a book. Wow!