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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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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
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
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
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
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
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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Book Little Myself One Liner
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
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
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
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Deserve Give Up Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Fond Lover Swift Water Women Writing
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
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
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
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Laughter One Liner Silly

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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