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• We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Ears

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.6833, Delphi Classics

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• The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Snakes

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.66, Xist Publishing

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• The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
  With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
  The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
  With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
  To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
  While small birds nestle in the edge below.

  John Clare

  Fall, White, Swans

  John Clare, “Autumn Birds”

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• If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

  Sergio Aragones

  Cat, Halos, Ifs

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• A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Animal, Play

  "Selections from the Journals".

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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Cat, Tree

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cat, Ivory, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• "All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Gone, Grinning

  1865 The disappearance of the Cheshire Cat. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Cat, Grace, Pharaohs

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Cat, Men

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• The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

  John Ray

  Cat, Higher

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.88

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• To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

  Hermione Gingold

  Dog, Loss, Perfect

  Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”

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• Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Dog, Loss, Sight

  Arthur Guiterman (1915). “The Laughing Muse”

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• Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drama, Character, Cat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.489, Library of America

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• A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

  Tobias Smollett

  Science, Eels, Hunters

  Tobias George Smollett, Tobias Smollett (1831). “The adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality. In four volumes. ...”, p.246

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• Index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
  Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.

  M. Scott Peck

  Fear, Names, White

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• My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

  Andre Caldwell

  Football, Revenge, Florida

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• If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.

  Dan Gable

  Hard Work, Wrestling, Years

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• There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

  Morris Sheppard

  War, Drug, Washington Monument

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• The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Holiday, Boys

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.294

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• They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

  Lauren Bacall

  Party, Memorable, Thinking

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• Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

  Charles Darwin

  Friendship, Dog, Humility

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.10

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• I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

  Willie Morris

  Dog, Taken, Eye

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.3, Vintage

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