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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
Let me tell...
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Source: Letter, 14 Dec. 1725, to poet and author Jonathan Swift.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.