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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

— James Joyce

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— Gustave Flaubert

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— Thomas B. Allen

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— Willa Cather

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— Joan Frances Turner

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— Johann David Wyss

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

— Jim Bishop

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— Joe Millard

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— Brian Moore

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— William Gaddis

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