"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."
"It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves"
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Source: Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.346
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