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The gem of wisdom: "Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away."  [Context: Narration on the character of Sidney Carton in the closing paragraphs of chapter four, A Tale Of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). The source of the text, Project Gutenberg's e-text of the whole book]

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