"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race."
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Source: James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
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