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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.»

Author: Kent Nerburn (Author, Educator, Sculptor, Theologian) | Keywords: arrives, bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, coerce, coerced, embrace, season, staying

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

Author: Orison Swett Marden | About: Success | Keywords: bribed, bribes, bribing, coax, coaxed, drudgery, perseverance

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

Author: Robert H. Jackson | About: Men | Keywords: ambitions, bribed, loyalties

«Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder»

Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Marriage | Keywords: bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, householder, housekeeper, housekeepers

«Death takes no bribes.»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: bribed, bribes, bribing, takes

«Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime»

Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, lawful, paid, penalties, penalty, rich man

«As to the juror or the witness, bribe both»

Author: Latin Proverb | Keywords: as to, both, bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, juror, jurors, witness, witnessing

«There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: As of, bribed, decides, entreated, overawed, partial, verdict

«It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.»

Author: Sun Tzu (Author, General) | Keywords: agents, bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, care for, conduct, doubled, doubles, double over, doubling, espionage, essential, instructions, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, seek out, serve, The Agent, thus, used

«O, this lifeIs nobler than attending for a check,Richer than doing nothing for a bribe,Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: attending, bribe, bribed, bribes, check, doing nothing, nobler, prouder, richer, rustle, rustles, rustling, silk, silks, unpaid

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