Quote#Freedom
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still…
Quote bySaki · 1870–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Square Egg (1924), "The Achievement of the Cat".
English (original)
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.
— Saki
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