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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 I saw them, but they would not listen, and now they are paying for their folly.
2 We will make everything good among ourselves, and pay you in full for all that we have eaten and drunk.
3 He scowled at him and cried, "You wretch, I will soon pay you out for daring to say such things to me, and in public too."
4 I will bring as much gold as I can lay my hands on, and there is something else also that I can do towards paying my fare.
5 Each one of us shall pay you a fine worth twenty oxen, and we will keep on giving you gold and bronze till your heart is softened.
6 It will be hard on me if I have to pay Icarius the large sum which I must give him if I insist on sending his daughter back to him.
7 This man, confident in his great wealth, was paying court to the wife of Ulysses, and said to the suitors, "Hear what I have to say."
8 He is much the best man and the most persistent wooer, of all those who are paying court to my mother and trying to take Ulysses' place.
9 Singing comes cheap to those who do not pay for it, and all this is done at the cost of one whose bones lie rotting in some wilderness or grinding to powder in the surf.
10 Then they all sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over the king's absence, and those who rejoice at it because they can eat up his property without paying for it.
11 I am being eaten out of house and home; my fair estate is being wasted, and my house is full of miscreants who keep killing great numbers of my sheep and oxen, on the pretence of paying their addresses to my mother.
12 We shall go back and continue to eat up Telemachus's estate without paying him, till such time as his mother leaves off tormenting us by keeping us day after day on the tiptoe of expectation, each vying with the other in his suit for a prize of such rare perfection.
13 It was not fair of her to treat us in that way, and as long as she continues in the mind with which heaven has now endowed her, so long shall we go on eating up your estate; and I do not see why she should change, for she gets all the honour and glory, and it is you who pay for it, not she.