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absence makes the heart grow fonder
prov. When someone or something is faraway, you realise how much you love (or miss) them or it.
Usage examples of "absence makes the heart grow fonder".
After all, what was the old hackneyed saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder.
After a week's 'absence makes the heart grow fonder', James and Claude got back together.
There is much truth in the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
It is, indeed, a familiar observation that the happiest couples are those who are occasionally separated, and the fact has been embalmed in the trite maxim that absence makes the heart grow fonder.