"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so,...

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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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"For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.
"[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing...
"But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he ...
"but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away