“To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”
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“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”
— Charles Lamb, book Essays of Elia
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
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