“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Complete Poems
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
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"For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; / For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;... His hook was baited with a dragon's tail,— / And then on rock he stood to bob for whale."
From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The Loves of Hero and Leander, published in London in 1653 and 1677, republished in Chambers's Book of Days, vol. i. p. 173; Samuel Daniel, Rural Sports, Supplement, p. 57.
"His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak;
His line, a cable which in storms ne'er broke;
His hook he baited with a dragon’s tail,—
And sat upon a rock, and bobb'd for whale"
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have you ever seen anyone who could take anything from me against my will, ever, anywhere, anytime?
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