"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had."

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The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson