"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."
"She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1841). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty”, p.74
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