‘Tis better to have than, uh, have not

QUOTE:

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
       Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892),
       The poem "In Memoriam A.H.H." (1850)

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COUNTERQUOTE:

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
       Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
       British novelist
       The Way of All Flesh (1903)

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