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"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."
"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes."

A mouse is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse. Mice are also popular as pets. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are locally common. They are known to invade homes for food and shelter.
"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."
"But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o mice an men, Gang aft a-gly, An leae us nought but grief and pain, For promisd joy."
"The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower"
"A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye"
"When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it."
"I think if she lived in A little shoe-house — That little old woman was Surely a mouse!"