every man has his price
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But on another day he came back smiling sideways and confided to Mama that every man has his price.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
True it is that every man has his price, and the more so in these hard, post-war days of riot and ruin.
From The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux
They have found that every man has his price; and they have been foolishly or corruptly taught to mistrust and despise him for that necessary and salutary condition of social existence.
From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw
It is a maxim with them, that every man has his price.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford
Oh, as for that, every man has his price.
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy
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