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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
Plenty
Friends
Wells
Well
Separate

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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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