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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?


Marsilio Ficino


#attractiveness #bar #bribes #feet #highest

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


Miguel de Cervantes


#law #motive #pity #severity #softened

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


John le Carre


#experience #his #like #lives #mainstream

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.


Jack Cade


#ask #bribes #case #cause #come

They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.


Jack Cade


#any #ask #bribes #else #forfeiture






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