“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”
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Famous Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes
“people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.”
Source: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
Source: The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays
“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.”
Source: Letters
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
Source: 1708-1720
“People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes