Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.

somewhat troubled by the absence of a consistent policy governing our willingness to permit the President to participate in these private, commercial tributes . . . .

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.