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But in her upper chamber heedful Penelope still lay fasting, tasting neither food nor drink, anxious whether her gentle son would escape death, or by the audacious suitors be borne down; as doubts a lion in a crowd of men, in terror as they draw the crafty circle round him. To her in such anxiety sweet slumber came, and lying back she slept and every joint relaxed.

— George Herbert Palmer The Odyssey of Homer (1894)

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Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked.

Harvard Philosophy A lecture (1911)

What constitutes the teacher is the passion to make scholars, and again and again it happens that the great scholar has no such passion whatever.

Σοὶ πρῶτον σπένδω ἡ μοί ποτε δῶκας ἰδέσθαι
Ναυσικάαν Ἑλένης τε χάριν καὶ Πηνελόπειαν.

The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII (1884)

Papa dear, could you not have the wagon harnessed for me, — the high one, with good wheels, — to take my nice clothes to the river to be washed, which now are lying dirty?

The Odyssey of Homer (1894)

Now all the others who were saved from utter ruin were at home, safe both from war and sea. Him only, longing for his home and wife, a potent nymph, Kalypso, a heavenly goddess, held in her hollow grotto, desiring him to be her husband.

The Odyssey of Homer: Books I-XII (1884)

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