• Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?

  Source: From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet 1618-1667
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. creature
2. should
3. morals
4. drink

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Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why? by : Abraham Cowley

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