It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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"I have a great objection to all forms of cant and hypocrisy."
"I am not a believer in the divine right of kings."
"The American women are certainly not pretty... They are not graceful, they are not elegant, they are not accomplished, they are not intellectual, they are not virtuous, and they are not honest."
"I have no faith in the wisdom of any government that is not based upon the popular will."
"I don't believe in the perfectibility of the human race."
Paul Clifford (often misattributed to Dickens, but a famous opening he parodied)
Date: 1830 (parodied later)
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