Quote#Time
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day
Quote byHenry Fielding · 1707–1754
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tom Thumb the Great (1730), Act I, sc. ii.
English (original)
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. Today it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
— Henry Fielding
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