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Diogenes Laërtius
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John Bartlett
(18201905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
1919.
NUMBER:
9090
AUTHOR:
Diogenes Laërtius
(fl. early 3d cent.)
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Solon. x.
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