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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

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