For our citizens to patronize the violation of a particular law on the ground that they are opposed to it is destructive of the very basis of all that protection of life, of homes and property which they rightly claim under other laws. He knew me as well as I knew him; and so, in the cold, faint twilight, with a glimmer in the high glass and another on the polish of the oak stair below, we faced each other in our common intensity. The ideal, or even my own ideal, I shall probably not attain. Dublin, 1904 Trieste, 1914 End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
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