#bribe

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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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. ↗

— Robert Jackson

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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe. ↗

— Imran Khan

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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery. ↗

— Sallust

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I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe. ↗

— Al Lewis

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What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn’t want to have to break the law to serve them. ↗

— Jeff Sharlet

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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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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

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