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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 177
AUTHOR: Washington Irving (1783–1859)
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: WASHINGTON IRVING (Geoffrey Crayon, pseud.), Tales of a Traveller, Preface, p. 7 (1825? reprinted 1972).
SUBJECTS: Change