"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 had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."
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Source: Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.723, Penguin
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