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- From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Chuck Kincaid)
- Subject: Re: British Parliament quote (Disraeli?)
- In-Reply-To: olson@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 25 Dec 92 05:01:32 GMT
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 19:46:05
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- >>>>> On 25 Dec 92 05:01:32 GMT, olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there) said:
- :>> In article <RODRIGUE.92Dec24171925@diamond.CS.Yale.Edu> rodrigue@CS.Yale.Edu (Joe Rodrigue) writes:
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- >Can someone correct me on this, it is a famous exchange between British
- >legislators. I would like to know the speakers, the date and circumstances,
- >etc:
- >
- >A: [Would you bring a pox down on all of us, or just yourself?] (*very* approximate)
- >
- >B: That depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.
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- :>> Argh, I can't remember who it was, but the first part is:
- :>> "Sir, I predict that you willl die either on the gallows or of some loathsome
- :>> disease."
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- The first (I heard it in a slightly different form) is from William
- Gladstone.
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