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Disraeli was a master of the putdown and especially loved to putdown Gladstone. Another one: Gladstone stood up in Parliament one time and declared that Disraeli "would one day die of venereal disease or on the gallows." Disraeli answered, " I will die of the former if I embrace your mistress and of the latter if I embrace your principles."
It didn't pay to mess with Disraeli.
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