"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
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Source: James Joyce (2016). “DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series): The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Mother, Grace & The Dead”, p.20, e-artnow
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