"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."
"For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145
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