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"...North of Ireland the yoke of capitalism lies heavy upon the lives of the people. ...there exists grinding toil for old and young – toil to which the child is given up whilst its limbs and brains are still immature and undeveloped, and toil continued until, a broken and enfeebled wreck, the toiler sinks into a too early grave. In this part of Ireland the child is old before it knows what it is to be young."

"'You are a villainous wretch,' Don Quixote burst out, 'and you are the one who is empty and a fool, and I am fuller than the whore of a bitch who bore you ever was.'
And with these words he snatched up a loaf and hurled it at the goatherd's face"

"But isn't it extraordinary how this unfortunate hidalgo believes all these lies and fiction, just because they imitate the style and manner of the nonsense in his books?"
'Yes, it is strange,' said Cardenio, 'and the whole business is so weird and wonderful that I can't believe that if anyone wanted to invent such a story he'd be clever enough to do it'."

p.16, "In spite of his recent momentary desire for any kind of contact with people, at the first word that was actually addressed to him he suddenly felt his customary irritable and unpleasant sense of revulsion towards any stranger who touched, or merely attempted to touch, his personal individuality."

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