Charles de Montesquieu

Laws are spider webs through which big flies pass and little ones get caught.

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pass for

[pass for] {v. phr.} To be taken for; be considered as. * /Charles speaks Arabic so fluently that he could easily pass for an Arab./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Charles de Montesquieu

There is nothing more annoying than seeing how a well-said word dies in the ear of the fool to whom you said it. www.sky-net-eye.com

come to pass

[come to pass] {v. phr.}, {literary} To happen; occur. * /Strange things come to pass in troubled times./ * /It came to pass that the jailer visited him by night./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Charles Churchill

(1731-1764) The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect. www.sky-net-eye.com

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