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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 372
AUTHOR: Exchange retold by Sir Charles Petrie
QUOTATION: Earl of Sandwich: ’Pon my honor, Wilkes, I don’t know whether you’ll die on the gallows or of the pox.

John Wilkes: That must depend my Lord, upon whether I first embrace your Lordship’s principles, or your Lordship’s mistresses.
ATTRIBUTION: Exchange retold by Sir Charles Petrie, The Four Georges, p. 133 (1935).
SUBJECTS: Death