Then, having worked out his sum, he sat down and translated a bit or two of Homer to encourage us, and the result was mere bosh." -- "The truth being, he is guilty of a tomfoolery among principles at the start.

If by any chance we could, in English, find the right way to translate Homer, why should we waste it on translating him?
We had a hundred times better be writing Epics of our own." -- "It cannot be done.

If it could, it ought not.

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