[HN Gopher] Bruegel the Elder's "Big Fish Eat Little Fish" (1556)
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       Bruegel the Elder's "Big Fish Eat Little Fish" (1556)
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2022-03-08 18:03 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | Tagbert wrote:
       | "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And
       | little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the
       | great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
       | While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so
       | on."
       | 
       | -Augustus De Morgan
        
         | throwyawayyyy wrote:
         | The Vermin only teaze and pinch / Their Foes superior by an
         | Inch. / So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea / Hath smaller Fleas
         | that on him prey, / And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, /
         | And so proceed ad infinitum: / Thus ev'ry Poet, in his Kind /
         | Is bit by him that comes behind
         | 
         | - Jonathan Swift :)
        
         | SentientOctopus wrote:
         | "It is the way of the world, Baldrick. The abused always kick
         | downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat, the cat pounces
         | on the mouse, and finally, the mouse --bites you on the
         | behind."
         | 
         | "And what do I do?"
         | 
         | "Nothing. You are last in God's great chain. Unless there's an
         | earwig around here you'd like to victimize."
         | 
         | - Sir Edmund Blackadder
        
         | hprotagonist wrote:
         | " Adam
         | 
         | Had'em"
         | 
         | -- Lines On the Antiquity of Microbes
        
         | sertsa wrote:
         | Might be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on
         | me!
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | > "Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet" (A serpent, unless
       | it devours a serpent, will not become a dragon)
       | 
       | And dragons do not become less hungry. This is a fair summary of
       | current world events.
        
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