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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins, ch. 7 (1894).)
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You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does—but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Jim Baker, in "Baker's Bluejay Yarn," ch. 1-2, A Tramp Abroad (1879).)
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Till she grows as grey as a cat,
(Thomas Flatman (1637-1688), British poet. On Marriage (l. 7). . .
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, The. Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978) Oxford University Press.)
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This is the cat
That killed the rat
(Mother Goose (fl. 17th-18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 7-8). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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heavy noisy cat
(Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777, published in Works, vol. 2.)
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This is the dog
That worried the cat
(Mother Goose (fl. 17th-18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 11-12). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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A harmless necessary cat.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, l. 55.
Commenting on what some people cannot bear.)
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the cat
climbed over
the top of
the jamcloset
(William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. As the cat (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to look at the Queen.
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under the chair.
(Mother Goose (fl. 17th-18th century. Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been? (L. 1-4). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Notebook, pp. 236-237, entry for 1984, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935).)
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