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• Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

  Mike Tyson

  Used

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• I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Boys, Fish Tanks, Boat

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• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Grace, Hook

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

  Socrates

  Life, Beauty, Kindness

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• BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Kindness, Preparation

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2361, Delphi Classics

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• Pleasure is the bait of sin

  Plato

  Sin, Pleasure

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• A little bait catches a large fish.

  John Taylor Wood

  Effort, Littles, Fishes

  John Taylor Wood (2010). “Quotes to Nirvana”, p.2, iUniverse

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• Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Grace, Hook, Mere

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Hook

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• I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

  Larry Norman

  Men, Offering, Fishing

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• But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

  Maxim Gorky

  Big Fish, Poor, Bigs

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• When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

  J.R. Ward

  Adults, Realizing, Hours

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• I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

  Sam Waterston

  Thinking

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Real, Moon, Mind

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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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 audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

  Les Brown

  Communication, People, Television

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• The fish adores the bait.

  George Herbert

  Adore, Fishes

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

  David McGee

  Satan, Believer, Offended

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• An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Heart, Rights, People

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.19, Arcturus Publishing

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• Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Girl, Running, Fighting

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• The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Fishing, Digging

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Darkness, Use

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• The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

  Edmund Spenser

  Caught, Fishes, Bites

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