#bait

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

— Mike Tyson

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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

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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Mark Ruffalo

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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

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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