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I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in england, and i should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if i knew anyone of 'em that i thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of revenue for the good of mankind, but that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
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I Am Patriot Enough To Take Pains

Mary Wortley Montagu
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in england, and i should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if i knew anyone of 'em that i thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of revenue for the good of mankind, but that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.
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