“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
Upton Sinclair book The Jungle
Source: The Jungle
“There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 18
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Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,
cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum.
Book I, epistle iv, lines 15–16
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
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