#bribe

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. ↗

— John Webster

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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ↗

— John le Carre

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Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. ↗

— Claud Cockburn

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To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats. ↗

— Karin Tidbeck

#equality #equality

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

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