This case isn’t ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is “live and let live”.
Ian Fleming
Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter.
“In my job,” he said, “when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It’s ‘live and let die’.”
Live and Let Die (Primary source)
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, plunging the British spy into a dangerous mission against a Harlem-based crime lord and his supernatural reputation.
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