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• Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous, and that with but a feeble stretch of the imagination those possibilities might wisely be deemed certainties.

  Homer

  Imagination, Degrees, Vancouver

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• Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

  Homer

  Kings, Hunting, Animal

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• You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!

  Homer

  Brother, Sauce, Taste

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• Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

  Homer

  Hurt, Helping, Shame

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• I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

  Homer

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.402, University of Chicago Press

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• One rogue leads another.

  Homer

  Rogues

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• All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

  Homer

  Men, Honor, Way

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.131, Macmillan

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• Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Limits

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• She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

  Homer

  Wind, Sea, Skills

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• Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

  Homer

  Evil, Looks, Woe

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• Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

  Homer

  Kings, Lord, States

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.969, Library of Alexandria

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• Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

  Homer

  Love, War, Tired

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• Nobody gets into heaven without a glowstick.

  Homer

  Heaven

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• [But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

  Homer

  Hands, Enemy, Age

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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• I'm a people person...who drinks.

  Homer

  People, Drink, Persons

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• Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

  Homer

  Reality, Literature, Hunger

  Homer (1840). “Homer”, p.42

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• We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Race, Flare Up

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• Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

  Homer

  Wine, Mind, Body

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• And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

  Homer

  Memories, Father, Grief

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• [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.

  Homer

  Dream, Strong, White

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• The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.

  Homer

  Running, Men, Doe

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.318, University of Chicago Press

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• Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

  Homer

  Men, Rage From The Iliad, Sacred

  HOMER (1961). “THE ODYSSEY”

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• That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

  Homer

  Death, Song, Men

  Homer (1996). “The Odyssey”, Viking Press

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• Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

  Homer

  Strong, Men, Two

  Homer (1836). “Homer”, p.294

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• There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

  Homer

  Men, Hands, Feet

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