Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, "Maximes d'amorurs, " Histoire amoureuse des Gaule.
Absence weakens small loves but strengthens great ones, like wind on fire.
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