Tailed Tree Mouse

Famous quotes containing the words tree and/or mouse:

    It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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    When out an old mouse bolted in the wheats
    With all her young ones hanging at her teats;
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