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No, I'll have mistresses.

— George II of Great Britain

Non, j'aurai des maîtresses.

Original text (French)

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Tearfully answering his wife, Queen Caroline, who as she lay dying had urged him to marry again.

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I hate painting, and poetry too! Neither the one nor the other ever did any good.

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There are kings enough in England. I am nothing there. I am old and want rest and should only go to be plagued and teased there about that Damned House of Commons.

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