"When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me."
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27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. Wilkes is reported to have replied, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He ’ll see you damned first". Edmund Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!" —Henry Peter, Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III (Thurlow).
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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (9 December 1731 – 12 September 1806) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1778 to 1783, and again from 1783 to 1792.
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