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“Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c9916bc5dfdbab0bc10604c8b85a29648beeb6abe993a0840132dd1a0f6b81bc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Plutarch
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“A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.”
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“Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep it because it shall do nobody…”
Robert Burton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.”
John Selden
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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