IN PASSING
When Mark Twain was having a difficult time trying to learn German for his second trip abroad, he wrote in his notebook that “once the German language gets hold of a cat, it’s goodbye cat,” and he decided he would rather decline two drinks than one verb.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31125, 30 July 1966, Page 4
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