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The cat has too much spirit to have no heart
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the read more
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick read more
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting
down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know,
Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.
Therefore what does that signify to me?"
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he read more
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
