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Absence makes the heart grow fonderMeaningThe lack of something increases the desire for it. OriginThe Roman poet Sextus Propertius gave us the earliest form of this saying in Elegies:
The contemporary version appears in The Pocket Magazine of Classic and Polite Literature, 1832, in a piece by a Miss Stickland:
The phrase was also source material for the lewd wordplay:
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