There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
Corrupt Quotes
Corruption’s not for modern date; It hath been tried in ev’ry state.
The instinctive sense of the dishonor which money-purchase does to art is so strong that sometimes a man of letters who can pay his way otherwise refuses pay for his work, as Lord Byron did, for a while, from a noble pride, and as Count Tolstoy has tried to do, from a noble conscience.
