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> [“Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/sitting-in-the-study-hall-he-opened-the-lid-of-his-desk-and-changed/)

[James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/)

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