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I have promised the king, and I will keep my word, that I would never…

Quote byHenry Pelham · 1694–1754

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Duke of Newcastle (7-18 September 1750), quoted in William Coxe, Memoirs of the Administration of The Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Collected from the Family Papers, and Other Authentic Documents, Vol. II (1829), p. 389.

English (original)

I have promised the king, and I will keep my word, that I would never enter into any cabal again, to prevent his Majesty from either removing, or bringing into his service, any person he had either a prejudice to, or a predilection for.

— Henry Pelham

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