"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."
"I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from Household Words and All the Year Round”, p.135
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