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Absence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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