Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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All we ask is to be let alone.

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889): First Message to the Confederate Congress, March, 1861.

'T is said that absence conquers love;

But oh believe it not!

I 've tried, alas! its power to prove,

But thou art not forgot.

Frederick W. Thomas (1808- ——): Absence conquers Love.

Oh would I were a boy again,

When life seemed formed of sunny years,

And all the heart then knew of pain