26 dezembro 2014

A Pity Today's Politicians Aren't This Witty

John Montagu: Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.

John Wilkes: That will depend, my lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.



(Wilkes (1725-1795) was a famous English journalist and political radical, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich was a political opponent. And "the pox" was the "French pox" or in today's terms, syphilis,)

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