ARCHIE. ... What makes a cow give milk?
RICHARD. [Takes his hand.] Who knows? Do you understand what it is to give a thing?
ARCHIE. To give? Yes.
RICHARD. While you have a thing it can be taken from you.
ARCHIE. By robbers? No?
RICHARD. But when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. [He bends his head and presses his son's hand against his cheek.] It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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ARCHIE. Are there robbers here like in Rome?
RICHARD. There are poor people everywhere.
-- James Joyce, Exiles
