"It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep."

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James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose work transformed modern literature. He is best known for Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. His experimentation with language and narrative form had enduring influence on 20th-century fiction.

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