“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
Daniel Defoe
“The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
William Penn
“None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware”
Robert Herrick
“A vow is a snare for sin”
Samuel Johnson
“He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one”
Publilius Syrus
“Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.”
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