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ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another au...
Abruptness is eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
-- Sir John Suckling...
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. -- Lazarus Long
Abscond: To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside of a dying relative and miss the return train.
ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way," commonly with the property of another.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond...
Absence and death are the same-only that in death there is no suffering. -- Walter S. Lando
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
-- La Rochefoucald...
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
-- Hannah More...
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
-- Comte DeBussy-Rabuti...
Absence makes the dick grow longer.

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