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• All men have their price. -- commonly ascribed to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
• The balance of power. -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Speech, 1741
• Anything but history, for history must be false. -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Walpoliana, No.
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• 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.
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• 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. -- Sir Hugh Walpole
• The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet, and precious.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Tam o' Shante...
• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
  -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- Letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676 -- in H....
• The future is a convienient place for dreams. -- A. France
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Sir Winston Churchill