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

Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIAL

Home One Liner
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
MARTIAL

Rich Wealth
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL

Solution Yourself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
MARTIAL

Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work

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