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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

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Goodbye
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William Cowper
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I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute on;
but I wish that I could get away
And go home to the village of Bruton. – William Cowper

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Vacations
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William Cowper
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Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. – Benjamin Franklin

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Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. – Max Beerbohm

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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. – Plautus

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Fish and visitors smell in three days. – Benjamin Franklin

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