Mary Wortley Montagu quote: People wish their enemies dead - but I do not...

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

Mary Wortley Montagu

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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

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

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