“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”

Initially attributed to Cyrus S. Ching in Time, Vol. 56 (1950), p. 21.
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Variant: Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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