Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 60
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
“We have here other fish to fry.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 12.
“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”
:3 Fish: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
:1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
:*William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act ii. Sc. 1.
Source: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 18; comparable to:
“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”
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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
“My government has no intention to acquire large loans from any country in the near future.”
Source: Taneti Maamau (2021) cited in " Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level rise https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/kiribatis-presidents-plans-to-raise-islands-in-fight-against-sea-level-rise" on The Guardian, 10 August 2021.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
New External and Internal Position and the Problems of the Party (1920); as quoted in The Soviet Power : The Socialist Sixth Of The World (1940) by Hewlett Johnson.
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