"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy."
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Source: James Joyce (2015). “Ulysses”, p.376, James Joyce
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