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More Bait Quotes

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• In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering… — Les Brown
• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in… — Robert Burton
• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. — Lord Chesterfield
• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. — Sun Tzu
• In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable… — Sun Tzu
• All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to… — Sun Tzu
• Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star. — Unknown Author
• Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden… — Kuki Gallmann
• Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and… — Peter Cundall
• The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to… — Alexander Hamilton
• An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head… — Alexander Hamilton
• The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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