“Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.”

—  John Gay

Fable LXIII, "Plutus, Cupid, and Time"
Fables (1727)

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English poet and playwright 1685–1732

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