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For Love or Money

Disraeli, the brilliant Prime Minister of England, fell in love and married a lady twelve years older than he by the name of Mary. They had a legendary love and marriage. He used to kid her and say, "Mary, you know the reason I married you was because of your money." And she said, "But if you had it to do over again, you'd marry me because of your love."

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