Quote #184
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !"
"That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your
mistress"
-- -- John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763
Now that's so much of a classic I am near-ashamed to include it in here.
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !"
"That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your
mistress"
-- -- John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763
Now that's so much of a classic I am near-ashamed to include it in here.
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