"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."
"Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy's Progress”, p.364
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