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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1786) Anglo-Irish novelist, Anglican clergyman
Tristam Shandy, Book 7, ch. 2 (1765)
Added on 17-Mar-16 | Last updated 17-Mar-16
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More quotes by Sterne, Laurence There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
The Silverado Squatters, “With the Children of Israel,” sec. 3 (1883)
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Added on 2-Oct-13 | Last updated 20-May-22
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Topics: contrast, difference, foreign, perspective, setting, traveler
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