A Handle on Any Man
Perkins: You can get a handle of some kind on any living man. Not necessarily in his past, you understand — I know that anything like that is out of the question in this case — but in his future. With some men it is money, with others power, with others fame, with others women or some woman, and so on down the list.
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Context: The schemer Perkins explains to his employers how to pressure the two inventors.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter VI, The Object-Compass at Work