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Quote by Bess Myerson
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own in

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. – Bess Myerson

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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly

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