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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.
  -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745) -- Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole, Vol. iv, p. 369...
• 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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• The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
  -- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)...
• 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....
• 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. -- Sir Hugh Walpole
• It's all a game -- play it to have fun. -- Price's Advice
• Price's Advice: It's all a game -- play it to have fun.
• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
  -- Sir Walter Sco...