Gratuitously Quotes
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Where a person interposes his interest and good offices to procure a pardon, it ought to be done gratuitously and not for money.
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More Gratuitously Quotes
As a cartoon, it was mildly amusing. As a campaign, it's crass and gratuitously offensive.
— Janet Albrechtsen (May 5, 2010). "South Park gag makes a mockery of freedom of expression". The Australian.
The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.
noonan, john t., jr.— Introduction, p. xi
The concept of evolution as proceeding through the gradual transformation of masses of individuals by the accumulation of impalpable changes is one that the study of genetics shows immediately to be false. Once for all, that burden so gratuitously undertaken in ignorance of generic physiology by the evolutionists of the last century may be cast into oblivion. For the facts of heredity and variation unite to prove that genetic variation is a phenomenon of individuals.
— Chapter XV, p. 289. (Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913))
