Let sleeping dogs lie.

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All those men have their price.

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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

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Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned.

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I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.

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I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

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