Currently, I’m reading the book “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. Well, it’s classical English literature; I occasionally enjoy reading some classics, which helps to widen my vocabulary. Furthermore, they contain endlessly valuable stories. Here is an excerpt that I found very fascinating, and I’d like to share it with you.

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.

~A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens~

_{©image: “The Lion and the Jackal” by Fred Barnard. The attorneys Stryver (left) and Carton (right) are working on the case of Charles Darnay — and a quantity of punch in Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Book 2, chap. v.}