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be caught

Examples

If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught. Mobutu Sésé Seko

Much may be made of a Scotsman if he be caught young. Samuel Johnson

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. Elbert Hubbard

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. Jewish Proverb

A bird that allows itself to be caught will find a way of escaping. Cameroon Proverb

A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses. Japanese Proverb

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