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This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in.

Homer

Years, Feelings, Cash

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Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Homer

Scene, Call Me

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There is a strength in the even of very sorry men

Homer

Sorry, Men, Sorry Men

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Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

Homer

Unity, Vain, Force

Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.34

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Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.

Homer

Dream, Two, Ivory

Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Homer

Wise, Color, Sensual

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To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

Homer

Sea, Tomorrow, Morrow

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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

Homer

Friendship, Race, Soul

Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.459, Lulu.com

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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

Homer

Love, Power, Grace

Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.333

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'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

Homer

Giving, Soul, Birth

Homer (2008). “The Iliad of Homer: Easyread Large Edition”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

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She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Homer

Drinking, Grief, Passion

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If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

Homer

Jobs, Half, Way

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I war not with the dead.

Homer

War

Homer, W. C. Armstrong (1851). “Translation of the Iliad of Homer”, p.168

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I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

Homer

Moving, Forever, Arches

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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Homer

Men, Light, Sea

Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

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And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

Homer

Grief, Son, Blood

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O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

Homer

Sports, Strong, Heart

Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.160

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Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Homer

Family, Money, World And Love

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No TV and no beer makes Homer something something.

Homer

Beer, Tvs

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But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!

Homer

Drink, Funny Simpsons, Funniest Simpsons

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The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Homer

Military, Fighting, Battle

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It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Homer

Kings, House, Authority

Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.

Homer

Brain, Quality, Looks

Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

Homer

Giving, Providence, Mortals

"Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

Homer

Strong, Persuasion

Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.275, University of Chicago Press

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