双城记

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 is the spring of hope, it is the winter of despair; We were all heading for heaven, we were all heading in the opposite direction - in short, it was very much as it is now, and some of the loudest authorities insisted on the use of superlatives