“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
Mark Twain
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“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”
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