Gustave Flaubert: He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.

He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself — Gustave Flaubert

He is so corrupt that he would willingly pay for the pleasure of selling himself.

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What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return. — Friedrich Schiller
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. — Karl Marx
Oh Love! young Love! bound in thy rosy band, Let sage or cynic prattle as he wil — Lord Byron
Quidquid sub terra est, in apricum proferet ætas; Defodiet condetque nitentia. T — Horace