Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

“The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and t…”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will li…”

“You are in every line I have ever read.”

“It was unaccountable not to be obliged to go out to see her, not to have any oc…”