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absents

«It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.»
«To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.»
«The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.»
«In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.»
«Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.»
«Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.»
«Presents, I often say, endear absents.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: absents, endear
«A good husband is healthy and absent.»
«Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.»
«For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.»