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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.

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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Be merry if you are wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.

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