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PWB Peeps - Open Thread - Clemens' Cats [1]
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Date: 2022-10-12
“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction.”
Limited edition print titled "Mark Twain and Friend" from the Centennial Collection of portrait artist Susan B. Durkee
“A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats
than someone who has just read about them.”
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
— Pudd'nhead Wilson
“One of them likes to be crammed into a corner-pocket of the billiard table -- which he fits as snugly as does a finger in a glove and then he watches the game (and obstructs it) by the hour, and spoils many a shot by putting out his paw and changing the direction of a passing ball.”
- Letter to Mable Larkin Patterson, 2 October 1908
Royal Crown Cola ad from the 1940s featuring Mark Twain's story about his cat in the corner-pocket.
“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.” — A Tramp Abroad
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.
— quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” — Pudd'nhead Wilson
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
"That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her."
- from memoirs of Clemens’ secretary Mary Howden which were published in the New York Herald
“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 the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
— Notebook, 1894
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