“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
Source: The Jungle
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American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878–1968Related quotes
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“He liked everything about the university except the students.”
Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye
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“It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
Bill Budd, on the ship's gruel.
Billy Budd (1962)
“And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”
Dylan Thomas book A Child's Christmas in Wales
Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet