Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book I, Chapter 6.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)
“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”
Ill Omens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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