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  • Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.

    -Joel Chandler Harris
      Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings,'Plantation Proverbs'.

  •   If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot.

    - Claude originally Festus Claudius McKay
      Harlem Shadows,'If  We Must Die'.

  • Next was November, he full gross and fat, As fed with lard, and that right well might seem; For, he had been a fatting hogs of late.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 7, stanza 40.

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