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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...
• It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.
  -- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Greedy and Ambitious Cat, Chap. i, Fable iii...
• Theorem: a cat has nine tails. Proof: No cat has eight tails.
  A cat has one tail more than no cat. Therefore, a cat has nine tails....
• My last cat had nine lives. Slept through eight of them.
• Felinious Assault: Striking someone with a cat.
• A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
• A radioactive cat has eighteen half-lives.
• If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat -- Mark Twai
• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid.
  She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well...