"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."
"We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1861). “All the Year Round”, p.436
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