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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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Graham Greene
between October 2, 1904 and April 3, 1991. He/she was a famous
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