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Blows Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
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