"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him."
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Source: James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics
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