Mice
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A mouse is a small rodent.
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- The city mouse lives in a house,
The garden mouse lives in a bower- Christina Rossetti, The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse
- I think if she lived in
A little shoe-house —
That little old woman was
Surely a mouse!- Beatrix Potter, The Old Woman
- A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws and silver eye- Walter de la Mare, Silver
- Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
- Plautus, Truculentus, Act IV, sc. iv, l. 15
- When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book VIII, sec. 103
- A cube of cheese no larger than a die
May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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- If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
- Desmond Tutu, (quoted in Ending Poverty As We Know It : Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage (2003) by William P. Quigley, p. 8)
- The early bird may catch the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
