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Letter "A" » absent
«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.»
«The absent are always in the wrong»
«The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.»
Author: Gary Larson
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
absent, bluebird, bluebirds, chicken, depression, The Chicken, visited
«To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.»
Author: Robert Copeland
| Keywords:
absent, absents, committee, Committee of, consist, done, more than, no more, three, to get, Two and Three
«The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.»
«The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
absent, falsities, falsity, inconstancy
«Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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