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Earl Of Sandwich:
'Pon my soul, Wilkes, I don't know whether you'll die upon the gallows or of the pox.
Wilkes:
That depends, my Lord, whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles, or your Lordship's mistresses.
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The liberty of the press is the birth-right of a Briton, and is justly esteemed the firmest bulwark of the liberties of this country.
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Give me a grain of truth and I will mix it up with a great mass of falsehood so that no chemist will ever be able to separate them.
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John Wilkes
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Born:
October 17, 1725
Died:
December 26, 1797
(aged 72)
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John Wilkes was an English radical, journalist, and politician.
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