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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?

Martial

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
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
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom

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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