BOOK XIV
by Homer • Book 14
This chapter helps you find comfort in unexpected hospitality when enduring deep personal loss. It reminds you that kindness and loyalty can still be found in the humblest corners of your life.
“Stranger, though a still poorer man should come here, it would not be right for me to insult him, for all strangers and beggars are from Jove.”
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