fun with phrases

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
> cats […] suck the breath from babies, killing them

FWIW, that's the version that I'm familiar with, though I didn't
encounter it till some time after 1962, when it was given to me as the
speaker's reason for disliking cats.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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