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Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Strategy

There webs were spread of more than common size,
And half-starved spiders prey’d on half-starved flies.
Churchill—The Prophecy of Famine. L. 327.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Pope—Essay on Criticism. Pt. I. L. 177.

For her own breakfast she’ll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
Young—Love of Fame. Satire VI. L. 187.