Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape  

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"Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape" is a saying of Solon, quoted by Sade. Balzac borrows the line in The Firm of Nucingen.




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