"Gesetze sind wie Spinnweben, die kleine Fliegen fangen, aber Wespen und Hornissen entkommen lassen."
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A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
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Jonathan Swift
1667 – 1745
englisch-irischer Schriftsteller
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