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“When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.”
— Edmund Clerihew Bentley, "Bacon", in Baseless Biography (1939), p. 6.
“His sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.”
— 1 Samuel 8:3 KJV
“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."”
— Coxe, Memoirs of Walpole, Volume IV, p. 369.
“A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.”
— Demosthenes, bribed not to speak against Harpalus, he pretended to have lost his voice. Plutarch quotes the accusation as above. Also elsewhere refers to it as the "silver quinsey".
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
— George Washington, Moral Maxims, Virtue and Vice, The Trial of Virtue.

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