Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook be…

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.37
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