"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."
"You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me."
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Source: Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from Household Words and All the Year Round”, p.392
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