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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place-
Macavity wasn't there.
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Macavity: The Mystery Cat

 

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S.)

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square —
But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

 

Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot

 

Macavity, Macavity, there's no on like Macavity,
He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.

 

Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot

 

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.

 

Eric Hoffer

 

Though it be so that this deed be truly taken for the general Man, yet it excludeth not the special. For what our good Lord will do by His poor creatures, it is now unknown to me.
But this deed and that other aforesaid, they are not both one but two sundry. This deed shall be done sooner (and that shall be as we come to Heaven), and to whom our Lord giveth it, it may be known here in part. But that Great Deed aforesaid shall neither be known in Heaven nor earth till it is done.

 

Julian of Norwich

 

I've done a good deed. I gave that little twit his soul back. Wasn't that generous?

 

Peter Cook