“ why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like ”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). copy citation
Author | Charles Dickens |
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Source | A Tale of Two Cities |
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Date | 1859 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-h/98-h.htm |
Context
“When he was left alone, this strange being took up a candle, went to a glass that hung against the wall, and surveyed himself minutely in it.
“Do you particularly like the man?” he muttered, at his own image; “why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that. Ah, confound you! What a change you have made in yourself! A good reason for taking to a man, that he shows you what you have fallen away from, and what you might have been! Change places with him, and would you have been looked at by those blue eyes as he was, and commiserated by that agitated face as he was?”
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