They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentime…

Graham Greene
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. ✨ 'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2
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