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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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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present

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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