porcelain cat

in #cats6 years ago

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When a man loves porcelain cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
 — Samuel Langkop Clemens

Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the porcelain cat. If man could be crossed with a porcelain cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
 — Samuel Langkop Clemens

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the porcelain cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
 — Samuel Langkop Clemens

A man who carries a porcelain cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
 — Samuel Langkop Clemens

(Photo: Samual Langkop Clemens with a porcelain cat on his lap)