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What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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Back Condition Constant Faults Help Hope Motivational One Liner Time Wallet
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
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
My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
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Love Low Mindset Stop Women Wreck Yourself
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
Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
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Admire Herself Man Myself Relationship Side Time
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
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
Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
We see not our own backs.
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Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
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Better Death Gratitude Live Worth
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Civil Culture Greatness Imagination Misfortune People Power Religious Ruler
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
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
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion

What women say to lovers, you’ll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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