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Alternative forms
Proverb
time is a great healer
- Synonym of time heals all wounds
1913, Percy F. Westerman, chapter XXXIII, in The Rival Submarines:"Time is a great healer, Mr. Hythe; but the reminiscences of my early struggles with fate cannot be easily erased. […] "
1914 December 9, Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 147:Time is a great healer, but twelve years is not long enough.
Further reading
- Jennifer Speake, editor (2015), “time is a great healer”, in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 6th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 319.
- Colin McIntosh, editor (2013), “time's a great healer”, in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, reproduced in the Cambridge English Dictionary website, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.