| 词汇 | what we gave we have |
| 词源 | what we gave, we have. These wise old words are a loose translation of lines by the Roman poet Martial, which seem to have first appeared as an epitaph on “the good Earl of Courte- nay” in the 17th century: What wee gave, wee have; What wee spent, wee had; What wee left, wee lost. |
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