"People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!"

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Source : Letter from Horace Walpole to the Earl of Harcourt, 17 September 1778, in W. S. Lewis et al. (eds.) 'Horace Walpole's Correspondence' vol. 35 (1973) p. 489

Mary Wortley Montagu

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