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• It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have any bait on your hook.
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• Fish or cut bait. American Proverb
• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Conduct of Life", 1860...
• The fish in the sea are as good as the fish removed.
• Sea water is the purest and most polluted: for fish it is drinkable and life-giving
  for men, not drinkable and destructive. -- Heraclitu...
• Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyge
• What do sea monsters eat? Fish and ships.
• There are plenty more fish in the sea, but who wants to go out with a fish?