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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.


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In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO A mousetrap always provides free cheese.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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STEVE MARABOLI There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Love is like a mousetrap, with a yummy cheese on it; easy to come in, yet hard to come out.
BRADLEY B. DALINA You are a mousetrap of a friend, all soft cheese and hard springs
CHRIS CLEAVE The second mouse gets the cheese!
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ANUJ SOMANY The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
WILLIE NELSON The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
JON HAMMOND The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
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ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
ANON. The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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RUSSIAN PROVERB The early bird may get the worm, but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.
ANONYMOUS it is not the fault of the mouse but of the one who offers him the cheese
MEXICAN PROVERB It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.
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LAURYN WILLIAMS If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer..
LINDSEY KELK Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.
WAYNE L. MISNER Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN When building a business or life plan, leave room for error.
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JEAN SASSON A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole
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STEWART LEE Leave no room for mistakes, and don't have an excuse for one.
NISHAL MAHARAJ These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
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JACK VANCE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
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IMANTS ZIEDONIS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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FRANCINE RIVERS There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
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OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN In life there is always good room for Ego
MOHIT KHEMLANI The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
GEORGE GOBEL If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice
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AMIT KALANTRI It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE Comte is the cheese for fondue. In France, they make these fabulous broiled open-faced sandwiches wi...
EMILY HINES There’s always room for love. Even if it’s as small as a crack in the door.
KIERA CASS I always leave the court with a make in practice. I'm glad to go out of here with a make in a game, ...
BILLY CAMPBELL The French Code for cheese is ALIVE. The American Code for cheese, on the other hand, is DEAD.
CLOTAIRE RAPAILLE Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers ha...
BRIDGET HALL The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk A mouse who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed ...
AESOP There's always room for improvement.
ERLANA LARKINS Not the least of my problems is that I can hardly even imagine what kind of an experience a genuine,...
FREDERICK BUECHNER My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.
JOSH HUTCHERSON The mouse with one hole is easily taken
PROVERB Krishna offered to the little girl mouse.. the hand of the sungod in marriage.. but instead she chos...
SRILA PRABHUPAD Jeff and I have always wanted to leave here with the program in great shape.
GREG BRUNNER Mom wouldn't remember things. She would, say, make cheese sandwiches, only you'd have bread and butt...
JUDY MCKELLAR I grab the nonstick skillet, put it on the stove, and fetch four slices of bread from the breadbox. ...
STACEY BALLIS There's always room for improvement, but it's a good start.
DAN OPPLAND It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.
It's much harder to get him to leave your though...
ELIZABETH EULBERG Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.
DON ADDIS One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mouse...
KIN HUBBARD It's a morning food, but we've had people buy them for dinner parties. We also make a breakfast sand...
DAN EINSTEIN If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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