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“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”

Book Promise Empty Hungry Satisfying Heartless Lure Empty Promises

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.”

Hope Wise Promise Repose Lure Presumptuous

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like, 'If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan.' The scammers will tell you that, so you have to be careful.”

People Ifs Artist Plans Like You Promise Victim Careful Confusion Fake Be Careful Healthcare Obamacare Lure False Promises Con Artist

Author:Jay Leno

“She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.”

People Thinking Should Hands Care Pain Given Love Is Gone Taken Promise Should Have Absence Remembered Cult Lure Good Family

Book:The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: The Harlequin: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.”

Term Principles Promise Opposites Relation Resistance Odd Latter Betrayed Lure

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.”

“Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.”

Men Promise Smell Motherhood Sensible Perfume Lure Tidy Thrifty

Book:My Fair Godmother

Source: My Fair Godmother