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NOVELISTS > author > Mary Wortley Montagu
We travellers are...
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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
Source: Letter, 10 March 1718 (published in Selected Letters, ed. by Robert Halsband 1970).
-- Mary Wortley Montagu, (May 26 1689-1762), English author; She wrote witty, descriptive letters of Middle Eastern life.