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William Cowper Quotes: Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
         

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.


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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
         



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