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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Note 118 — COMPENSATION.[93]

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Achilles, the hero of Homer's Iliad. His mother Thetis, to render him invulnerable, plunged him into the waters of the Styx. The heel by which she held him was not washed by the waters and remained vulnerable. Here he received a mortal wound.

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