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And ye sall walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare,
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
Nor think o'Donald mair.
Author: Miss Susanna Blamire
Source: The Siller Clown
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'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures;
And all are to be sold, if you consider
Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features
Are brought up, others by a warlike leader;
Some by a place--as tend their years or natures;
The most by ready cash--but all have prices,
From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 27)
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Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the
interested views of themselves or their relatives the
declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those
men have their price."
Author: William Coxe
Source: Memoirs of Walpole (vol. IV, p. 369)
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A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.
Author: Demosthenes
Source: bribed not to speak against Harpalus, he pretended to have lost voice
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,
He had not the method of making a fortune.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: On His Own Character
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But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold,
Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: London (l. 177)
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Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats,
And ask no questions but the price of votes.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 95)
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe
Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epilogue to Satire (dialogue II, l. 46)
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 187)
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By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are
abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will
be an end of every modest restraint.
[Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,
Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]
Author: Sextus Propertius
Source: Elegioe (III, 13, 48)
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No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Source: Love the Only Price of Love
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There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
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'Tis gold
Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes
Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold
Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief,
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
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What, shall one of us,
That struck for the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers--shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honors
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none
Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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Every man has his price.
Author: Sir Robert Walpole
Source: in a speech
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Author: George Washington
Source: Moral Maxims--Virtue and Vice--The Trial of Virtue
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