“No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.”

— John Wolcot

To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.

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English satirist 1738–1819

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