Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
-- Leo Rosten
   
Leo Rosten   Name:
Leo Rosten
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
April 11, 1908
Death:
February 19, 1997
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