"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum."
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Source: On Poetry l. 337 (1733)
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