“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.”

Tales of a Traveler (1824), Preface, p. 7.
Source: Tales of a Traveller

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writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783–1859

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