"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."
""My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain...""
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Source: Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.369
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