This was an unusual quote in that Twain really said it, or fairly close. "...a person who carried a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful." From Tom Sawyer abroad.

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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dennis Eddings
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:41 PM
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Subject: quotation

Can anyone on the list tell me if the following quotation is really = attributable to our guy:  "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns = something he can learn in no other way."  Just curious.  It sounds like = Twain, but I've never encountered it before.  It may well be as spurious = as the golf quotation he never uttered.

dennis eddings=