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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Separate
Plenty
Friends
Wells
Well

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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
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