“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" (1721).
“314. The absent partie is still faultie.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Stare adeo miserum est, pereunt vestigia mille
ante fugam, absentemque ferit grauis ungula campum.
Source: Thebaid, Book VI, Line 400
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Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente,
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1990s, Speech to the Council for National Policy (1997)
