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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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177 |
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AUTHOR:
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Washington Irving (1783–1859) |
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QUOTATION:
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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WASHINGTON IRVING (Geoffrey Crayon, pseud.), Tales of a Traveller, Preface, p. 7 (1825? reprinted 1972). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Change |
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