People wish their enemies dead-but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Quoted in Letter to the Earl of Harcourt. Written by Horace Walpole. 17 Sept. 1778.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Quoted in Letter to the Earl of Harcourt. Written by Horace Walpole. 17 Sept. 1778.
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