“Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, ‘I never whitened a hair of her dear… — Charles Dickens
“Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, ‘I never whitened a hair of her dear head—I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!’ For of all the many things that you can think of when you are a man, you had better have by you, Woolwich!”
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