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“I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?”

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.”

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Author:Wendell Johnson

“I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.”

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Author:Pauly Shore

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding "...future child-bride of my only son.”

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Book:Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

“For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.”

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Author:William H. Gass

“If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.”

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Author:David Parnas

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon