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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocotts Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.
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Laws
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Goldsmith.The Traveller, Line 386.
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Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state,
Laws wise as nature, and as fixd as fate.
Pope.Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 189.
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Laws are like spider webs, small flies are taen,
While greater flies break in and out again.
Braithwaite.Honest Ghost, 1658, p. 79.
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Law is a spiders web, and ever was,
It takes the little flies, lets great ones pass.
Braithwaite.Honest Ghost, 1658, p. 170; and see Mr. Dyces Ed. of Websters Plays, XX.
in notis.
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Laws under which life lives.
Cumming.Lecture at Exeter Hall, 12th Nov. 1854. (See title Justice.)
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