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Quote by Colley Cibber
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. - Colley Cibbe

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibber

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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. – Johann von Goethe

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Never find fault with the absent. – Proverb

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