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Sir Robert Walpole.
" Every  man  has  a  price, "  is a  saying  for  which  Sir  Robert
Walpole  has  credit.  He  is  supposed  to  have  believed  that
whatever  pretensions  a  man  might  advance  to  probity,  a  sum  might
be  named,  or,  advantage  offered,  for  which  he  would  be  content
to  surrender  vantage  offered,  for  which  he  would  be  content  to
surrender  honour.  It  would,  however,  seem  that  he  himself  set  a
high  price  on  his  own  integrity,  for Mr.  Pitt  used  to  say  that
he  knew  sixty  thousand  pounds  to  have  been offered  to  him  to save
the  Earl  of  Derwentwater,  which  he  refused  from  a  sense  of
duty.
 
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