Bound and be damned

Posted by Smokey Stover March 29, 2006In reply to Bound and be damned posted by m. Watts on March 29, 2006

What is the origin of the phrase "bound and be damned".

I googled just "and be damned," pretty much knowing what I would get. And I did.

From quotationspage.com I got: "Publish and be damned!
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his letters." SS

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Bound and be damned Smokey Stover 29/March/06