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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: and stayed them.
"Heaven and the immortal gods," he exclaimed, "forbid that you
should leave my house to go on board of a ship. Do you think I
am so poor and short of clothes, or that I have so few cloaks
and as to be unable to find comfortable beds both for myself and
for my guests? Let me tell you I have store both of rugs and
cloaks, and shall not permit the son of my old friend Ulysses to
camp down on the deck of a ship--not while I live--nor yet will
my sons after me, but they will keep open house as I have done."
Then Minerva answered, "Sir, you have spoken well, and it will
be much better that Telemachus should do as you have said; he,
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