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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Aware Destruction Dream Habit Lost One Liner Truth Water Wine
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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Fond Promise Stream Vow Woman
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
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Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Fond Lover Swift Water Women Writing
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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Angry Favor God Right Wild Wrong
But you shall not escape my iambics.
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Escape Yourself
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
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Feeling Hate Myself Query Question Torture
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
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Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
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Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

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