"The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools."
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"But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."
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"President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch."
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"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out."
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"Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts."
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"There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike."
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"The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]"
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"The fish adores the bait."
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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."
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"I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!"
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"Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone."
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"I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial."
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"So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon."
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