It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
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It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times; it was back to unprecedented times.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2021
The Los Angeles music scene of the 1970s was often analogous to late 19th century London as characterized by Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2015
Going Back To the Old School It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
From Newsweek • Sep. 16, 2010
Applying a well-known phrase from another time to seventeenth-century embryological theory, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.
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