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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
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
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
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
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Confirm Difficult One Liner Passion
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
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Darkness Path Return Travel
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
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Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
But you shall not escape my iambics.
CATULLUS

Escape 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
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
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Destruction Water Wine Yourself
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
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Desire Difficult Hard Time Love Relationship
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
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

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