“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
James Altucher (1968) American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author
“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.
"You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”
"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)
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