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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. - Publilius Syr

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. – Publilius Syrus

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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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