Go to Google.  Type in "Mark Twain Quotations." Click on Barbara Schmidt's
page, then on "c"; go to "cats."  She attributes a very similar quotation
to *Tom Sawyer Abroad*.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Dennis Eddings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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=
>



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John H. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of Language and Literature
Chowan University
Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855