Bait Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right”

Charles Caleb Colton

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Bait Deceiving Falsehood Hook Mislead Opinion Sometimes Successful Truth Watches

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