"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man."
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Source: James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.546, First Avenue Editions
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