“I have nine lives," said the kitten, purring softly as it walked around in a circle and then came back to the roof; "but I can't lose even one of them by falling in this country, because I really couldn't manage to fall if I wanted to.”

—  L. Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908), Ch. 2 : The Glass City
Later Oz novels

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