"I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail."
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"A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them."
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"The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction."
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"...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. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!"
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"I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't."
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"If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash."
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"The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way."
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"She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her."
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"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."
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"The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers."
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"That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green."
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