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• Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.
  -- Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C....
• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actio
  ... that laws were like cobwebs,--for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fa...
• What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own. -- Anacharsis (f1.
  c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher -- Quoted in Stobaeus, Flor., II, 43...
• Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them.
  When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them,--thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong...
• The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.
  -- Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher -- Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Sententiae...
• Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. Spanish Proverb
• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• The I.R.S. must like poor people, it makes a lot of them.
• Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. -- Japanese Proverb