“ And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away. ”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Topic | love fire burning |
| Date | 1859 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/98/98-h/98-h.htm |
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