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• Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
  -- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)...
• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
  -- Hannah More...
• L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance.
  [Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge]. -- Comte de Bussy-Rabuti...
• Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
  -- La Rochefoucald...
• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• What an irreparable loss!" ~~ Auguste Comte, d. 1857
• What an irreparable loss!" --Auguste Comte, philosopher, 1798-1857