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“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Jacula Prudentum.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fbb5ef7b905e05d8ef7620ef7c19d057f81ea3e2f9743b7fe3f073515fbe8938
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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