"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."
"He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach."
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Source: Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.561, Wordsworth Editions
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