Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in … - Marvin Harris

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One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution. . . and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

Marvin Harris

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

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I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

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