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1  To which Ulysses answered, "Good luck to you too my friend, and may the gods grant you every happiness."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK VIII
2  We should thus have seen one another continually, and nothing but death could have interrupted so close and happy an intercourse.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV
3  A night will come when I shall have to yield myself to a marriage which I detest, for Jove has taken from me all hope of happiness.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XVIII
4  Heaven has denied us the happiness of spending our youth, and of growing old, together; do not then be aggrieved or take it amiss that I did not embrace you thus as soon as I saw you.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIII
5  Happy son of Peleus," answered the ghost of Agamemnon, "for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your body.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
6  Happy Ulysses, son of Laertes," replied the ghost of Agamemnon, "you are indeed blessed in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord as Penelope the daughter of Icarius.
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XXIV
7  One insolent fellow said to him, "Telemachus, you are not happy in your guests; first you have this importunate tramp, who comes begging bread and wine and has no skill for work or for hard fighting, but is perfectly useless, and now here is another fellow who is setting himself up as a prophet."
The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK XX