"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost."
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Source: James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.287, Courier Dover Publications
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