“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”
Book I, ch. 23.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
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