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• 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....
• Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
  Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress....
• Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
  Disraeli replied, "That all depends upon whether I embrace your principals or your mistress"....
• I presume you've come to see my mistress, Mr. Danger.
  I don't care about your love life, or what his name is. I came to see Nancy--- uh, Mrs. Haber....
• Marry your mistress, create a job vacancy.
• But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- On his Deceased Wife...
• You were conspicuous by your absence -- Lord John Russell