Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Corruption of the House of Commons
If corruption had been practiced on anything approaching to the fast and systematic scale which is so loosely imputed not one single case should have been forthcoming. He reserved crown patronage down to the last morsel exclusively for members of his own party he acted on the principle that is accepted in the united states that is not disavowed in france. wallpole has no doubt suffered much in the opinion of posterity as the supposed author of the shallow and cynical apophthicum that quote every man has his price end quote people who know nothing else about wallpole believe and repeat this about him yet the story is a pure piece of misrepresentationHe never delivered himself of that famous slander on mankind one day mocking
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