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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
Source: On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).0
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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine. by : Abraham Cowley