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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8526 Plautus 254-184 BC John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8526
AUTHOR:Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.)
QUOTATION:Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15. (868.)
 
Note 1.
See Chaucer, Quotation 30. [back]