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“Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs,--for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Solon. x.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f8cc2973823bf08fe2871ec74c5dc1cc233e569b2171eb09a98f4d2e02baaf50
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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