Abraham VergheseYesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Absence is to memory what silence is to speech. Absence diminishes small faults and increases great ones; it takes all the variety out of life.
Source: Cutting For Stone
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