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...shows a blissful ignorance of the personality of swine. I envy the man who has never had to become familiar with their perversity. . . . The average hog can only be driven by a system of deceit in which one attempts to prevent it from going in the direction one really wishes it to go. With this in mind, consider a hog's tiny hoofs, supporting a body bigger than man's. Then imagine the hog on slippery ice, where his complete natural perversity and unpredictableness is further complicated by the fact that he has no control of his feet...
...religious, powerful London broker, who prompts Jules's observation that "the English are not hypocritical. . . . They have a natural, ingrained double face from birth! They're the Western Chinese: old and smooth with deceit...
Yale Periodical Sponsors Deceit...
Proof of the gypping was offered in the form of signed testimony by several witnesses including members of the Yale News, undergraduate periodical, who were declared the sponsors of the deceit. No action was contemplated by either institution...
...last week. Before the wildly cheering House of Commons in his first speech as the nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for the sardonic.* Of retired Stanley Baldwin he said: "His love of truth wavered only occasionally, when, with a deceit which soon ceased to deceive anybody he was wont to describe himself as a plain, ordinary man. . . . Many comparisons have been made between Baldwin and other great Prime Ministers. For my part I have often thought that, making all due allowance for differences of education and upbringing and country...