"How delicate her feet who shuns the ground,……" — Homer
"How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men."
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410 Quotes by Homer
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Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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For love deceives the best of woman kind.
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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