"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at."
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Source: A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)
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