John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. Sir Robert Walpole. (1676–1745)
1 The balance of power. Speech, 1741. 2 Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, “All those men have their price.” 1 Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369. 3 Anything but history, for history must be false. Walpoliana. No. 141. 4 The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours. 2
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