"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 believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1974). “The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 3. 1842-1843”, OUP Oxford
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