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• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
  -- Mark Twai...
• A woman hath nine lives like a cat. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. iv
• It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.
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• One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), Pudd'nhead Wilso...
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