It's paraphrased from Tom Sawyer Abroad, page 154, when Tom and Jim are talking about the value of learning from experience. Tom is speaking: "But on the other hand Uncle Abner said the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful." Cheers, Sharon ________________________________ From: Dennis Eddings <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tue, November 8, 2011 2:40:32 PM 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=