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