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1. An easy one to start "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
2. "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
3. "Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since."
4. "In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance about 12 miles from London, measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, or rather from a spot on or near to which the Standard stood in days of yore, a house of public entertainment called the Maypole."
5. "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that."
6. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Phillip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip."
7. "Among the certain buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great and small, a workhouse,"
8. "Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about the fields and lanes all day". The death of one of the main characters of this novel caused much public distress.
9. "In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames."
10. Let's end with the novel that was left unfinished. "An ancient English Cathedral tower? How can an ancient English Cathedral tower be here!"
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