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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present see

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

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. – Sir Matthew Hale

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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Elizabeth Bowen

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. – Thomas Kempis

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