But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.
Cogitato, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.
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Cf. Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 572
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. (translator unknown)