“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”

—  Denis Diderot

As quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1942) by Edmund Fuller

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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